The large socialist shack dwellers' movement, in its bid to oust the ANC, may face the prospect of the Economic Freedom Fighters going into a coalition with the
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I share the view that Zikode is the most morally credible figure in our public life and have huge respect for the man and his achievements. The fact that the movement has survived the extreme level of repression that it has faced is incredible and a large part of that is due to Zikode’s personal moral strength.
I now concede that I was wrong. The list of political assassinations in South Africa on Wikipedia shows that three members of Abahlali baseMjondolo, including an important leader, were assassinated in 2013, along with a fourth activist who was close to the movement but not a card carrying member. The police also murdered a young girl who was a member of the movement that year. The following year they lost another leader.
The way in which Abahlali baseMjondolo prepared to make a collective decision on a protest vote was extraordinary. The process ran for over two months and included numerous meetings, some very large, and two open to the public. The movement flipped the usual script in which parties present their manifestos to potential voters and prepared its own list of 20 demands to present to the political parties.
The movement’s statements explain that their primary aim is to punish the ANC for the murders of its members. They also say that they see the uMkhonto weSizwe party as even more dangerous than the ANC and that they cannot consider a tactical vote for the DA because of its reactionary positions on land and Palestine.
It would be unthinkable for a movement as ethnically diverse as Abahlali baseMjondolo to support the IFP and so simple logic meant that it had to be the EFF. The video footage of the announcement of the decision at the movement’s UnFreedom Day event in Durban on Sunday makes for interesting viewing though. The numbers are huge; possibly as many as 15 000 people were there. When leaders chant anti-ANC and anti-MK slogans the response from the audience is excited.
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