Violent mob attacks at Kennedy Road settlement target leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo

In the early morning hours of September 27th, 2009 an armed mob of about 40 men unleashed a night of intimidation and terror at the Kennedy Road shack settlement in Durban, South Africa. The mob was armed with guns and bush knives and was calling out the names of the President and Vice President of the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement, threatening them with death. In the morning 3 were dead, many injured and over 1,000 of the residents fled the settlement with all they could carry.

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• Abahlali
• attack
• ANC
• South Africa
• housing
• shack dwellers
• evictions
• violence

[GodOfTheInternets]

@gavinmarkray

ANC is corrupted thugs who have done almost nothing for South Africa.

Abahlali baseMjondolo, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, Landless People's Movement, and Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front are the future.

fuck the anc.

[DizziNY1]

Wtf is wrong with people? What gives anyone the right to attack and kill people at random? These people have to abandon their homes, however dilapidated they are, because of a bunch of bullies? This bullshit has to stop.

[justamarxist]

Solidarity to AbM ! Don't lose hope. We are many, they are few...

[gavinmarkray]

Serves them right for trying to oppose the ANC

[gavinmarkray]

Serves them right for trying to challenge the ANC

[gavinmarkray]

Serves them right for trying to challenge the ANC

[1isto2]

What happened to our democracy?

[hippynz]

This will always happen in countries where 1 TRIBE rules and not an elected government made up of all the people of the country. It is the OLD way of rule. The biggest tribe kill off the rest and take all the wealth, this is why trible rule will never work. Same happens when you have rule of the counrty by royalty. A western system of electing a government may not be perfect but it is more balanced.

[altemark]

Shame on ANC and supporters preventing the autonomous organisation of shack dwellers.

[indefilms333]

In place of hope and optimism is shame and fear. This is way it seems to be with the ruling classes.