{"id":8224,"date":"2009-09-29T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2009-09-29T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:12:13","slug":"housing-activists-murdered-in-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=8224","title":{"rendered":"Housing activists murdered in Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Housing activists murdered in Durban<\/a><\/p>\n

Activists in the South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo have been attacked in Durban, leaving several dead.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC)
\nEmergency Press Release
\nSeptember 27, 2009<\/p>\n

Abahlali baseMjondolo Attacked in Kennedy Road \u2013 People Have Been Killed<\/p>\n

Last night at about 11:30 a group of about 40 heavily armed men attacked the Abahlali baseMjondolo office in the Kennedy Road settlement where the movement was holding an all night camp for the Youth League.<\/p>\n

The men who attacked were shouting: ‘The AmaMpondo are taking over Kennedy. Kennedy is for the AmaZulu.\u201d Some people were killed. We can’t yet say exactly how many. Some are saying that three people are dead. Some are saying that five people are dead. Some people are also very seriously injured. The attackers broke everything that they could…<\/p>\n

South Africa: Relocation, Relocation & Demonstration<\/a>
\nSimon Saunders
\nThe Morning Star<\/em>
\nSeptember 9, 2009<\/p>\n

Many activists in South Africa\u2019s largest shack dwellers\u2019 movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) have been fighting over the issue of housing rights for 15 years now.<\/p>\n

After the fall of apartheid in 1994, the new ANC government wrote into the constitution that the shack dwellers, living four or five to a room in hovels at the centre of South Africa\u2019s wealthiest cities, should have homes.<\/p>\n

But as time has gone on, successive administrations in the great conurbations, particularly the east coast port of Durban, have continued what many saw as one of the great injustices of white rule \u2013 the attempted removal of shack dwellers from prime real estate in the city centres.<\/p>\n

Instead of building houses where the shack dwellers already are, they build in the suburbs, a reinvention of 19th century urban planning models which force working-class people away from the opportunities, amenities and beauties of central living…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Housing activists murdered in Durban Activists in the South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo have been attacked in Durban, leaving several dead. Kennedy Road Development Committee (KRDC) Emergency Press Release September 27, 2009 Abahlali baseMjondolo Attacked in Kennedy Road … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-state","tag-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-28E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}