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# "There is Marikana everyday in South Africa" - an interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/there-is-marikana-everyday-in-south-africa-interview-with-abahlali-basemjo/
- Published: 2013-12-17T16:12:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:06:28.000Z
- Description: Film: Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo face severe police repression. Here S'bu Zikode outlines the lethal consequences of police militarisation and the ANC's political capture of the
- Author: openSecurity
- Tags: Africa, #Migrated, Conflict & security, Politics & activism, South Africa, Cities in Conflict, Structural Insecurity, Militarisation, Repression, exploitation and dispossession: policing protest, The Insurgent City, Militarisation and policing technologies, Policing, Whose Police?, Security in Sub-Saharan Africa, Democracy and government, transitional justice, Civil Society, conflict, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:37, #appended-excerpt

**Film:**Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack dwellers movement [Abahlali baseMjondolo](http://abahlali.org/?ref=opendemocracy.net) face severe police repression. Here S'bu Zikode outlines the lethal consequences of police militarisation and the ANC's political capture of the police.