‘A living politics’: Resisting gentrification

‘A living politics’: Resisting gentrification
- http://abahlali.org/node/825The members of Abahlali baseMjondolo describe their movement as ‘made for us and by us’ or, as their elected president S’bu Zikode describes, ‘a living politics’. Pointing out the essential irrelevance of the Northern-produced term ‘gentrification’ to describe their conditions, Abahlali stresss that their situation is markedly different and results from the authorities’ ‘dehumanising hatred’.
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