This document summarizes the goals of building an organization called ubuhlali in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. Ubuhlali is an ideology that advocates for the rights of impoverished people to access land, housing, water, and electricity. The movement aims to give the impoverished democratic control and restore their dignity. The president of the movement will visit a new occupation between Boksburg and Germiston. However, the movement faces repression, threats, and evictions for advocating for land rights throughout South Africa.

1. Building ubuhlali in Gauteng
Despite the attacks and repression that we face our movement
continues to become a home for impoverished people. Our movement
is growing and we have vibrant branches in a number of provinces.
Today we will embark on a mission of building ubuhlali in the
province of Gauteng. Ubuhlali is our ideology that speaks about
Living Politics. This is a politics that speaks to the fact that we do not
have access to land, housing, water and electricity. It is a politics that
speaks to the fact that we are purposely made to be poor. It is a
politics that speaks to the restoration of dignity of impoverished
people. It is a politics that starts from the realities of the everyday
lives of impoverished people and remains under the democratic
control of impoverished people.
The President of the movement S’bu Zikode will also visit
Zikode Extension, the new occupation on the East Rand
between Boksburg and Germiston. The leadership of the
movement in Gauteng has been facing death threats from
unknown men.
The movement is not only facing repression and threats in
KwaZulu-Natal. Our comrades are threatened throughout the
country. When we speak truth to power, build the democratic
power of impoverished people from below, and take direct
action to occupy and hold land, we are often threatened.
In Volksrust, in Mpumalanga, members of Abahlali are currently
being threatened with eviction by Transnet. We are preparing to
launch two more branches in Mpumalanga.
We continue to occupy land even if it means that we face the
barrel of the gun from the SAPS, the Anti–Land Invasion Unit,

2. the JMPD, the Red Ants and the so called Law Enforcement in
Cape Town. Impoverished people continue to face evictions
throughout the country. We continue to pay for land with
struggle, suffering and blood. Yet the hypocrites in the ANC are
speaking about land expropriation without compensation!
People want to be closer to the cities so that they can improve
their lives. When they occupy unoccupied land is because they
want to survive and to thrive. It is progressive when grassroots
movements occupy land for living. It is regressive when
government attacks people who are opening new land for
living. It is regressive when government, or other forces, claim
that there is a ‘third force’ driving us to occupy land and to build
our autonomous power from below. The ANC government is a
government of the rich that speaks in the name of the poor.
They are deeply threatened when we organise ourselves
outside of the structures of the party and speak for ourselves.
But we have a democratic right to organise freely and to
express ourselves freely and we will not turn back from the path
that we have taken.