Abahlali baseMjondolo

Abahlali baseMjondolo Abahlali baseMjondolo, or AbM, is a shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa. It now has more than 120 000 members in 86 branches across four provinces.

Abahlali baseMjondolo is a democratic mass movement of the oppressed in South Africa with more than 180 000 members in good standing in more than 100 branches in good standing across five provinces. The movement grew out of a road blockade organised from the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the city of Durban in March 2005. It is the largest popular movement to have emerged in post-apartheid South

Africa. The movement organises land occupations, builds community infrastructure such as halls, creches and gardens, works to run occupations as democratic communes and campaigns for land and housing and against corruption, xenophobia, evictions and sexism. It is committed to building women's power in struggle and insists that the social value of land must be placed before its commercial value. It has faced serious repression including the destruction of its members' homes, arrests, assaults, organised campaigns of slander, torture and assassination. The movement is strongly internationalist has connections with comrades and movements around the world.

07/09/2026

Justice Mdlanga quoted our President, Comrade S’bu Zikode, on the limits of the legal system, in his recent public lecture.

📢 IMPORTANT NOTICE: GENERAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHERDear Comrades,Please be informed that the Abahlali baseMjon...
05/09/2026

📢 IMPORTANT NOTICE: GENERAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER

Dear Comrades,

Please be informed that the Abahlali baseMjondolo General Assembly has been POSTPONED due to weather conditions.

We kindly ask all members, branches and structures not to travel to the General Assembly until a new date is announced.

A new date and further information will be communicated through the official channels.

Please share this information widely to ensure that all comrades are informed.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA
✊🏿 Land • Housing • Dignity

01/09/2026
Today we did a household risk assessment and settlement profiling with The Durban Coalition in the eKhenana Commune
30/08/2026

Today we did a household risk assessment and settlement profiling with The Durban Coalition in the eKhenana Commune

Yesterday we launched the Amersfoort Branch in Mpumalanga.
30/08/2026

Yesterday we launched the Amersfoort Branch in Mpumalanga.

Yesterday the Daggaskraal branch was successfully launched in Mpumalanga.
30/08/2026

Yesterday the Daggaskraal branch was successfully launched in Mpumalanga.

29/08/2026

This week, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and eThekwini Municipality together conducted a profiling of the community of Monkey Town in Bluff as required by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

The profiling process was successfully conducted, with the participation and support of the community.

This is an important step in the ongoing struggle for access to land, recognition and dignity for the community.

✊🏾 Amandla! Ubuhlalism!

Today the Gauteng Youth League held a political education workshop at the Lindokuhle Mnguni occupation. The discussions ...
29/08/2026

Today the Gauteng Youth League held a political education workshop at the Lindokuhle Mnguni occupation. The discussions were rich.

Today, the Youth league introduced School of thoughts as a weapon against inhumanity, inequality, and collective divisio...
23/08/2026

Today, the Youth league introduced School of thoughts as a weapon against inhumanity, inequality, and collective division to the Tete Branch in kwaDukuza,

The youth have restored hope and an opportunity to unify the Youth and elderly for collective Action!

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Suite 13-16 Diakonia Centre, 20 Diakonia Avenue
Durban
4001

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 16:00
Thursday 08:00 - 16:00
Friday 08:00 - 16:00

Telephone

+27313046420

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