“The world we are fighting for will evolve from the continuous struggle of liberated people” – Project South
Creative writings from the struggle in South Africa:
- To all my fellow comrades in da struggle: Don’t Give Up!! by Vicky, pavement dweller of Delft Symphony
- Cape town Freedom Song by Luke Zandstra (12 Years old)
- Slow Dance: A poem written in Kennedy Road
Related creative writings and poems:
- Mental Fight by Ben Okri
- If Only My Dream Is Realized by Rawan Yousef Salah
- Rise Like Lions by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- It is in the air – A message and poem of solidarity from Jacques Depelchin
On the AEC:
- Revolutionary Ubuntu
- Housing Battles in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The case of Mandela Park in Khayelitsha by Martin Legassick
- Western Cape Housing Crisis: Writings on Joe Slovo and Delft by Martin Legassick
- Housing and Evictions at the N2 Gateway Project in Delft – by Kerry Chance
- 2007 Spring – Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law by Daniel Moshenberg & Ronald Wesso
Affiliated social movements:
- We are the Third Force by Sbu Zikode
- Rethinking Public Participation from Below by Abahlali baseMjondolo
- Abahlali baseMjondolo Statement on the Xenophobic (Afrophobic) Attacks in Johannesburg
- A Collection of Statements and Essays on the May 2008 Pogroms
- A Prayer for Justice by Nsingo Fanuel
- Living and Learning by Abahlali baseMjondolo
Articles from South Africa on society and oppression:
- We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs by Andile Mngxitama
- Review of Mike Davis’ ‘Planet of Slums’ by Richard Pithouse
- Politics Beyond the State by Brother Filippo Mondini
- Settlement Informality: The importance of understanding change, formality and land and the informal economy by Marie Huchzermeyer
Articles on Society and Theory:
- Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis
- Twelve Theses on Changing the World without taking Power
- Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh (India)
- Hallmark Events and Evictions
- Two Tales of One City: tearing down the projects in Chicago (USA)
- Popular Justice: Guerrero’s community police (Mexico)
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca rebellion in victory, defeat and beyond (Mexico)
- I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet by EZLN (Mexico)
Educational resources:
- Dear Mandela (video)
- The South African Constitution
- THe 1998 PIE Act (The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful occupation of Land Act)
- The Protesting Handbook by FXI
- Map of Cape Town’s informal settlements
- The Arusha Declaration – 5 February 1967
- Declaration Of The III Assembly Of The Women Of The Via Campesina – 22 OCTOBER 2008
Resources collected by Abahlali baseMjondolo:
- Documents from other movements & struggles
- Theory
- History
- Policy & Law
- Reports on Housing, Evictions and Repression in South Africa
- Academic Research on Shack Settlements
- An archive of documents on the Slums Act
Other stories of oppression:
- Nandigram, India: My Name is Radharani Ari and This is How My Consciousness Was Raised
- ‘Curse of the Black Gold: 50 years of oil in the Niger delta’ by Ed Kashi & Michael Watts
Capitalism and Neoliberalism:
- How to Wreck the Economy By Arun Gupta (Indypendent)
Stumble It!
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign 
To whom it may concern,
I am doing research for a documentary on housing evictions in Eastridge and the Mitchell’s plain areas. Documentary is being directed by Robyn Rorke (Ashraf should know her) and is called Shamiela’s house.
I am trying to find photographs showing evictions in Eastridge as well as other photos related to the Cape Town Community Housing Committee etc. I have been doing newspaper research but am not having much luck. Do you have any photographs showing these mentioned things?
Kind regards,
Clare Anderson
021 7825840
0837241153
Dear friends,
I would like to suggest a book to add to the ‘Writings and Resources’ list. It is called ‘Progress and Poverty’ written by Henry George in San Francisco in 1879, and distributed by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. The ISBN number is 0-911312-58-7. A comment on the book on the back cover reads: “No one should be allowed to speak above a whisper or write more than ten words on the general subject (economics) unless he has read and digested Progress and Poverty” I know AEC is concerned with immediate eviction issues, but this book explains like no other, how it has come about that so many people in the world are denied access to affordable land, without which no one can make a living. And it gives the solution, which in a nutshell is that public revenue should not be taken in the form of taxes on wages, (and these days Vat, which is the worst possible tax), but from a tax on the rental value of land.
May I also endorse Tunde Sangodairo’s suggestion of following an online couse on Land Rights and Land Value Capture, developed by The International Union For Land Value Taxation for the UN Habitat Global Land Tool Network. A website regarding this is at http://course.earthrights.net/
Kind Regards,
Kevin McShannon
082 784 8172
http://bonita-converastionswithstreettraders.blogspot.com/
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Dear AEC,
thank you for the job you are doing, not only to defend the poor but to keep the memory of what is going on.
I’m a college teacher in Italy and I’m going to discuss about South Africa with my students this year, but there is no news about you on the press, as you can imagine… only the world championship would force Italian journalists to provide some coverage. So thank you for the resources you published!
I’d like to greet my old friend Martin Legassick, whom I used to talk to, or rather listen to, when we both lived in London, and whom I’d like to talk to once again.
Cristina Nativio
Hello AEC,
My name is Josh Emerick and I am a college student from Chicago, Illinois. I am currently taking a class entitled “Social Movements” and we have been learning about social movements, how they arrive, the concepts of mobilization, protest, and movement infrastructure. For my final project, I have to write and present on a current, contemporary social movement. After reading about your cause and the struggles that you endure, I was deeply moved and touched, and have research your movement and to promote your cause. Thank you for all you do for those who have lost the essential freedom of property.
Hello,
I am intrigued by the Anti-Eviction Campaign. I am currently a second-year PhD Student trying to put together a project involving the rhetorical strategies of the campaign. I need a specific text to analyze. Would it be possible to get copies of the court proceedings/testimonies that were/are part of the AEC? I would be greatly appreciative. I think this is an extremely important movement toward social justice that needs to be studied.