Showing posts with label Nkululeko Gwala. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nkululeko Gwala. Show all posts
Monday, 10 November 2014
Monday, 6 October 2014
Escalating Political Violence in South Africa
On Monday evening, not
long after the sun went down, a man with a gun stepped out of the dark and into
the everyday domestic routine in Thuli Ndlovu’s home in KwaNdengezi, Durban. He
shot Ndlovu seven times, and her neighbour’s teenage son twice. Ndlovu died on
the spot. Her neighbour’s son is in a critical condition.
Ndlovu was the
chairperson of the KwaNdengezi branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo. Like Nkululeko
Gwala, a member of the same organisation, who was assassinated in Cato Crest,
also in Durban, in June last year, she had been subject to serious intimidation
for some time and had told her family and comrades that she expected to die.
Thursday, 11 July 2013
The Antimonies of Democracy
A Murder in Durban, CounterPunch
by RICHARD PITHOUSE
Durban, South Africa.
In the last days of June Nkululeko Gwala was
assassinated in Cato Crest – a shack settlement in Durban that is in the
process of being upgraded with formal housing. Just over three months ago
Thembinkosi Qumbelo was gunned down in the same streets. Both men had been
prominent figures in the increasingly bitter struggles around housing that have
convulsed Cato Crest in recent months. There have been road blockades, a land
occupation – named, as they often are these days, ‘Marikana’ – and the offices
of two municipal councillors have been burnt down.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Nkululeko Gwala Murdered in Cato Crest
27 June 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Nkululeko Gwala Murdered in Cato Crest
Last night Nkululeko Gwala, an Abahlali baseMjondolo member,
and a well known and respected housing activist, was murdered in Cato Crest.
Twelve shots were fired. The style of this assassination is very similar to the
assassination of Thembinkosi Qumbelo, also a well known housing activist (but
not an AbM member) who was killed in the same area on the 15th of March this
year. There are also strong similarities to the attack on our movement in
Kennedy Road in 2009.
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