Abahlali baseMjondolo (membership & structures)

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Abahlali baseMjondolo is a South African social movement. The structure of the organisation is centred on open mass assemblies and elected councils at the community level, monthly open general assemblies and Annual General Meetings at the movement level. The movement also holds a number of rallies, workshops and political youth camps open for all its members to attend.[1][2][3][4]

Membership[]

As of June 20201 the movement claims to have "more than 100 000 members in 86 branches across five provinces".[5]

Structure[]

The movement has affiliated settlements, branches, and individual members in settlements which do not have branches.[6] They are reported to have a bottom-up structure where members direct their branches and their branches direct the movement executive.[7] In addition, Abahlali have a movement level Youth League and Women's League which are elected separately from the movement leadership at their own Annual General Meetings.[8][9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ The Work of violence:a timeline of armed attacks at Kennedy Road Archived 2011-08-26 at the Wayback Machine by Kerry Chance, School of Development Studies Research Report, 83, July 2010.]
  2. ^ Churches want justice
  3. ^ UnFreedom Day – “Iam not turning back anymore” Durban shackdweller
  4. ^ Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League Camp Motala Heights 30 - 31 July 2010
  5. ^ [The country goes deeper into crisis as the unemployment rate increases http://abahlali.org/node/17306/], Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement, 7 June 2021
  6. ^ Pierre de Vos In defense of the Internet
  7. ^ [Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo27315111.html], University of Chicago Press, 2017
  8. ^ Pierre de Vos In defense of the Internet
  9. ^ AbM Women's League Launch - 9 August 2008
  10. ^ Abahlali Youth League Secretariat
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