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DESCRIPTION:S'bu Zikode, founding member and community intellectual from the Durban, 
 South Africa organization Abahlali baseMjondolo (shack dwellers movement): 
 http://www.abahlali.org/ will discuss the struggles of poor working people 
 in South Africa.  Begun in 2005, Abahlali challenges the ruling African 
 National Congress (ANC) to provide housing and basic public services for 
 all poor people throughout South Africa.  This struggle has demonstrated 
 the political and ideological contradictions of ANC officials; from 
 national liberation heroes to ruling party embracing the ideology of 
 neoliberal economic austerity to brutal effect for mostly poor black South 
 Africans.\n\nAbahlali baseMjondolo, like many other movements of poor 
 people worldwide, brings a challenge from below to all ruling powers 
 denying poor people basic humanity.  Abahlali has crafted a democratic and 
 anti-racist community struggle to all apparatuses of the racialized, 
 capitalist post-Apartheid South African state; from the police, politicians 
 and business elite, to supposed progressive academics and NGOs that try to 
 “lead” this struggle.  Fighting for a “right to the city” and 
 public services, only to be met with police violence and active state 
 neglect, the struggle of the shack dwellers in South Africa greatly mirrors 
 that of working people and people of color in the Bay Area today.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/10/18663823.php
SUMMARY:Democracy From Below in South Africa: A Conversation with S’bu Zikode of Abahlali baseMjon
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, (Upstairs)\n6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/10/18663823.php
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