‘Learning from “The Civic Strike to Live with Dignity” in Buenaventura, Colombia’, with Patrick Kane (UK), 4.30 on 25 April at UKZN. We’re delighted to offer this chance to meet and hear from Patrick Kane. Patrick has been involved in solidarity activism supporting social movements and trade unions in Colombia for over a decade. He
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PADKOS NO 85 Movements & Meaning: ‘School of Thought’, 25 June from 10.30am Featuring Mary Akuteye, Erica Ofoe, Kofi Larweh, Jonathan Langdon & Eurig Scandrett An extraordinary panel from Ghana, as well as Canada & Scotland, closes out this six-month season of CLP’s “School of Thought”, which has been developed with the Paulo Freire Project at
On Monday, 28 May, Bishop Rubin and his wife, Rose, went to visit with S’fiso Ngcobo’s family. Ngcobo was assassinated on 22 May 2018 in eKukhayeni, in Marianhill outside Durban. He was the chairperson of the local branch of the shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo.
We will be remembering S’fiso today, 31 May at 2pm, at a memorial service in eKukhayeni.
It is sad and heartbreaking that we woke up to the news of the assassination of Abahlali branch Leader, Sfiso Ngcobo, of Ekukhanyeni branch near Marianridge Abahlali will issue a statement to share more details.
22 May 2018 ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO EMERGENCY PRESS STATEMENT Assassination in eKukhayeni, Marianhill, Durban S’fiso Ngcobo, our chairperson in eKukhayeni, was assassinated this evening by unknown gunmen. We will be able to provide more details on this assassination in the coming hours. Right now comrades are rushing to the family home. Ndumiso Mnguni, who was shot
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 The armed forces working for the eThekweni Municipality continue to relate to impoverished black people in the city like an army of occupation, especially when poor people are organised outside of the ruling party. Today at 11 am the notoriously violent Anti-Land Invasion Unit demolished Mr Ndumiso Mnguni’s house in our
Next up in the Paulo Freire-focused “School of Thought” padkos sessions, Graham Philpott and Mark Butler will open a conversation about the theological foundations and connections in Freire’s life and work. Although it’s not always known or emphasised in discussions of Paulo Freire, the fact is that Christianity was important – both in his own
On 8 May 2018, CLP led a discussion at Diakonia Council of Churches, with the KZN Church Leader’s Group and others about the ‘land’ question. It was an interesting and sometimes uncomfortable discussion which asked a lot of questions with no answers being expected. More sessions might come from this discussion with spaces being opened
This year’s UnFreedom Day was a culmination of a number of consultation processes with the broad membership of Abahlali. The processes included consultations at a leadership level, branch level, General Assembly and Land Summit. AbM used the UnFreedom Day to make announcements on two issues (1) the audited membership is now 50 000 (2) the position of