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President Zuma State of the Nation Address

3. June 2009

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State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 3 June 2009 Honourable Speaker; Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP; Deputy President of the Republic, Kgalema Motlanthe Former President of the Republic, Thabo Mbeki, Our [...]

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The Elections Are Over – The War on the Poor Continues

20. May 2009

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Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Tuesday, 19 May 2009 Now that the election is over and the politicians have finished hunting for positions they are running away from the people. It is impossible for a poor community to get a meeting with a politician. They only send in the police to break the people’s homes and to [...]

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A big devil in the shacks: The politics of fire

22. September 2008

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On average in South Africa over the last five years there are ten shack fires a day with someone dying in a shack fire every other day. Shack fires are not acts of God. They are the result of political choices, often at municipal level. Shack settlements are a poor people’s solution to a lack of [...]

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NEW FORMS OF LAND DISPOSSESSIONS

22. September 2008

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The advent of a new democratic order on 27 April 2007 resulted in an effort to reverse the adverse inequalities in the land ownership patterns in our country. Such efforts were complemented by a plethora of laws and legislations to give effect to this noble yet complicated process. However, such a [...]

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Steve Biko’s paradise lost – an extract from “Biko Lives!”

11. September 2008

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“This is one country where it would be possible to create a capitalist black society, if whites were intelligent, if the nationalists were intelligent. And that capitalist black society, black middle class, would be very effective … South Africa could succeed in putting across to the world a pretty convincing, integrated picture, with still 70 [...]

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The social value of land must come first

28. August 2008

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There has been considerable discussion after the announcement that the eThekwini Municipality is considering expropriating land from Tongaat-Hulett to finally move ahead with the long promised Cornubia development. We all know that in Durban, as in cities around the country, the question of housing is the biggest source of conflict between poor people’s organisations [...]

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Land disputes in KZN

13. June 2008

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An article in the Mercury this morning reports that land claimants have dismantled the 11km eastern boundary fence of the Ndumo game reserve and begun clearing land preparing farming plots. According to the report, the claim was officially settled earlier this year when community ownership was officially recognised on condition that no [...]

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