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| Title: | The Promised Land and the University of 'Abahlali baseMjondolo' |
| Author: | Pithouse, Richard |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332) |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 102-142 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | protest 2005 informal settlements economic inequality social inequality Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Urbanization and Migration Politics and Government History and Exploration sociology Slums Squatter settlements South Africa--Social conditions |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/afrisocirevi.10.1.102 |
| Abstract: | Capital is thrusting us into a world in which an increasingly massive portion of humanity lives in Third World slums, in what in South Africa are called 'emijondolo' (shack settlements). In Durban, fabulous private fortunes have and continue to be made very efficiently while life gets worse in Kennedy Road settlement. The people in whose name the power of the ANC was legitimated have been betrayed. In Kennedy Road settlement, more than 20,000 shack dwellers have mobilized themselves as 'Abahlali baseMjondolo' (shack dwellers) and organized mass political insurgence, demanding land, housing, toilets and an end to the threat of forced removals. As a result, they have suffered more than 80 arrests since March 2005, their constitutionally guaranteed right to stage public protests has been illegally withdrawn, and negotiations with the City authorities have been illegally suspended. This essay recounts events in Durban from 19 March to 14 December 2005. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
