Zodwa Nsibande is the General Secretary of the Abahlali baseMjondolo

Abahlali baseMjondolo

Abahlali baseMjondolo , also known as AbM or the red shirts is a shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa which is well known for its campaigning for public housing. The movement grew out of a road blockade organized from the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the city of Durban in early 2005 and now...

 youth league.

She has been critical of the impact of the FIFA 2010 World Cup on shack dwellers in Durban and supports the popular appropriation of electricity.

In 2006 she was badly burnt in a shack fire. She is currently in hiding following threats and attacks against her and various other Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders.

Interviews with Zodwa Nsibande

• Reclaiming our dignity and voices, Sokari Ekine, Pambazuka, September 2009
• Interview with a South African housing activist about recent struggles in Durban. Simon Saunders, Morning Star, September 2009

Articles by Zodwa Nsibande

• Serving our Life Sentence in the Shacks (with S'bu Zikode
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Online Films Featuring Zodwa Nsibande

• A Living Politics (in Howick) by Elkartasun Bideak, 2009
• From the Shacks to the Constitutional Court by Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2008
• A Place in the City by Jenny Morgan, 2008
• Dear Mandela by Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2008
• The Right to Know: The Fight for Open Democracy in South Africa by Ben Cashdan, 2007
• Breyani & the Councillor by Sally Gilles and Fazel Khan, 2006

External links

• Living Learning
• Experiences of Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, South Africa, A Report by Malavika Vartak for the Development Planning Unit of University College London