This Thursday join us for a showing of the

award-winning documentary, Favela Rising, at 1pm!

Please RSVP to Cindy at 033 264 4380.

Photo Credit: Jared Saks

The Marikana land occupation ends in violent evictions. Check out a video from ENews on the Marikana occupation and demolitions.

Find the video by clicking either of the links below.

Church Land Programme Facebook Page

or

Merikana Evictions – ENews 

Showing May 9: The history of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from its beginnings in a New York park to the brutal crackdown. Even in the face of police repression and media ridicule, the movement mobilised thousands fed up with the deep economic divide in the US.

Richard Pithouse and Anne Harley were among those who joined us at the Padkos Bioscope Launch. See more pictures here!

Click here to view the event pamphlet!

Our small dynamic team wants a dedicated activist to join the organisation in Pietermaritzburg.

For further information click here

CLOSING DATE: 5.00pm 5 April 2013

Living and Struggling with Dignity

Gogo Zondi harvests her crops on the land that was previously disputed.

“What may appear as a shack to other people, to me and my family, is a house, and I am very proud of it… It is quite disturbing that there are people who refer to my house as a ‘land claim shack,’” wrote Mrs. Florence Zondi in response to a regional newspaper report regarding her family’s land.

Gogo Zondi, as she is affectionately referred to, is a widow, who along with her family has been farming on their land for decades. At 89, she continues to work the land and be a symbol of immense perseverance and courage in the midst of a society plagued by injustice. Read more…

Click here for more of John Holloway’s work

For additional information see previous helpings of Padkos for:

• Oct 5 2012
• Sept 12 2012

To view pictures click here!

… In light of the government’s failure to address the unlawful arrest of school children, illegal cattle impoundment, forced evictions and land distribution issues, we have been emboldened to march in order to keep the Department of Land Affairs (Department of Rural Development and Land Reform), and the Department of Justice accountable for their responsibilities…Read more – RN March 2012

Pictures from October 23

16 September 2012

Abahlali BaseMjondolo Press StatementIn 2009 Siyanda residents near KwaMashu were evicted by the Dept. of Transport and relocated from their shacks into Transit camps so they could build the road which is known as Dumisani Makhaye (R577). The residents contested the eviction in the streets and in the courts but an eviction order was granted by the Durban High Court and the residents were evicted and relocated on 17 March 2009. Read more……..