New abahlali base mjondolo branch in gauteng

1. 9 February 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Abahlali to Launch a New Branch in Gauteng Province
The movement of Abahlali baseMjondoli will launch another
new branch in Gauteng tomorrow. The new branch is in
Thembisa, in the community of Vusumzi. The launch will begin
at 10 am.
Despite serious repression the movement has grown
immensely in the last few years, and continues to grow rapidly.
As always the launch will include a strong political education
programme. The political education is based on our living
politics of Ubuhlalism, which is the movement's ideology that
speaks to the fact that we are not poor but we that we are
impoverished. It is a politic that speaks to the fact that we do
not have water, and electricity and houses, and that land,
wealth and power must be shared. It is a politic that starts from
the fact that we still live like pigs in the mud in shacks of
indignity in post-apartheid South Africa. It is a politic rooted in
the capacity of the oppressed to build democratic organisation
from below. It is a politic that understands that inkani will open
the road towards popular democratic power and justice.
In the state that the country is in there is a great demand for our
movement because the impoverished remain neglected,
exploited and oppressed. We will also visit another branch in
Johannesburg where a political education session will be held.
Land. Housing. Dignity.
Occupy. Resist. Develop.