Thursday, July 06, 2006

No freedom for the poor

The mjondolo settlement in Durban's Foreman Road, as visited by a reporter from the Mail & Guardian newspaper, illustrates the growing inequities of the new new South Africa. Forced relocation is not the answer. Squatter empowerment is.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

check out

http://voiceoftheturtle.org/raj/blog/PamphletLo-res.pdf

and

http://www.monthlyreview.org/0206pithouse.htm

for more on the very large and very militant squatter struggles in durban

rn said...

Thanks, Deliwe. Abahlali and the other groups are doing great work.