The document summarizes recent events and ongoing struggles of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shack dwellers' movement. It discusses comrades from the movement visiting Ghana and addressing a Pan-African meeting in New York. It also outlines upcoming political education workshops and a new branch launch in Durban amid continued evictions and threats of violence against movement leaders from local authorities and criminal gangs. The movement vows to continue resisting in spite of facing constant intimidation and repression over the years.

1. The Struggle Continues
The struggle against all the forces that vandalise human dignity
has no borders. A human life is a human life where ever it may
find itself. Just as we welcome comrades from other countries
into our movement, and host comrades visiting from other
countries in South Africa in meetings in our hall built in the
eNkanini Land Occupation, we are also offered solidarity and
hosted by comrades around the world, such as the Movimento
dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) in Brazil.
Last week three of our comrades, Mqapheli Bonono, Zanele
Mtshali and S’bu Zikode were warmly welcomed in Ghana.
They visited Elmina Castle, a slave fort, with other comrades
where Senzeni Na? was sung. Zikode also addressed more
than 400 militants from more than 60 countries at the opening
session of a Pan-African meeting of radical forces from across
the continent. Referring to Frantz Fanon Zikode encouraged
the delegates to take up the challenges confronting our
generation. At the meeting there was strong criticism of those
NGOs that try to substitute themselves for popular democratic
organisations and a strong commitment to build real solidarity,
living solidarity, between trade union and community struggles.
On Friday night Zikode will give a talk at the People’s Forum in
New York on the power of living politics, the sources of the
courage to resist, the necessity for democratic organisation and
the repression that continues to rain down on us from the
political gangsters in the ruling party and the Municipality in

2. Durban.
This weekend will also be busy in Durban. There will be a
political education session, in the form of a discussion and a
sharing of experiences and ideas, and a launch of a new
branch in Hillcrest. This branch is named after S’fiso Ngcobo,
the former chairperson of our Ekukhanyeni branch in Marianhill,
who was assassinated on the 22nd of May. Comrade Sifiso
was instrumental in building this branch which is why they
decided to name the branch in honour of him.
This weekend we will also be holding political education
workshops in Inanda and Cato Crest. Both of these
communities have been facing brutal and unlawful evictions at
gunpoint perpetrated by the notorious Anti-Land invasions Unit.
We have recently been approached by representatives from a
number of other communities from around Durban that are also
facing evictions. As people confront the armed violence of the
state, and have their homes burnt and destroyed, they realise
that they made a terrible mistake in voting for the ANC. We will
also begin the process of talking about possibilities for new
forms of organisation and resistance with people in these
communities. Joining our movement is a slow process that
requires careful discussion, collective consensus and
democratic organisation.
The struggle continues. Repression continues too.

3. One of our leaders in Ekukhanyeni, who has already lost one
family member in the struggle, has been threatened by a man
who says that he is ex-MK. He demanded that she give him
land to build a house claiming that the land belongs to the Zulu
King. He said to her, in Zulu, that “This woman does not know
me. I am a veteran. I can send people to take her away.” Since
the threats were made a suspicious car has been stopped at
her house in the evenings. Strange men have been waiting
outside her house from around 23:00 to 1:00. This is typical of
the events that usually precede an assassination. She has
moved from her house and is staying with comrades
elsewhere.
Our movement has survived constant intimidation, and
repression, including repeated assassinations, as well as
attempts at co-option and infiltration. We will not turn back.