Abahlali baseMjondolo

The forthcoming World Urban Forum provides an opportunity for the shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo to meet with other poor people's movements from Rio and around the world.

DEFINING OURSELVES

In 2005 Durban’s shackdwellers started to build the Abahlali baseMjondolo (people living in shacks) movement, which in just four years has become the largest organisation of the militant poor, not only in South Africa but across the whole continent.