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No Forced Removals, Foreman Road - photo from Abahlali baseMjondolo website.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement (South Africa) is a social movement which started in Durban, South Africa in 2005. The movement of approximately 20,000 people, are shack-dwellers. Abahlali baseMjondolo is Zulu for people who live in shacks. Since 2005 its membership has grown from an initial two shack settlements in the Clare Estate area of Durban to an estimated 35 different settlements in and beyond the Durban area. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Durban is a vibrant cosmopolitian city in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The organisation has sought housing, basic services and recognition from the government. Clashes have resulted. The eThekwini (Durban) Municipality was found guilty of preventing the exercise of free speech by the shackdwellers movement [1], and a number of cases of police brutality have been brought by the movement.

In the run-up to the 2010 World Cup, shackdwellers have been considered by some in government as a blight. The 2010 Football World Cup will take place in South Africa. ... Blight is a condition of property or the uses of property in parts of a city, town, or neighborhood that are detrimental to the physical, social, and/or economic well-being of a community. ...

Attempts by shackdwellers to find out the government's plans have not revealed whether they will be allowed to stay in their homes.

See also

• favela
• flophouse
• shanty town
• ghetto
• Kibera [2]
• colonias
• New Village

This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A flophouse or dosshouse is a place that offers very cheap lodging, generally by providing only minimal services. ... Shanty town in Manila, Philippines. ... A ghetto is an area where people from a specific racial or ethnic background or united in a given culture or religion live as a group, voluntarily or involuntarily, in milder or stricter seclusion. ... Kibera Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya is the largest slum in Africa with a population of over one million people. ... Colonias, as used along the U.S./Mexican border, refer to rural, unincorporated settlements which often lack basic infrastructure and which are marked by poverty. ...

External links

• Abahlali baseMjondolo website
• The Third Force by S'bu Zikode