Shamita Naidoo
Shamita Naidoo is the chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo in Section B of Motala Heights in Pinetown near the city of Durban in South Africa.[1][2][3][4] She lives in a house with her two children and ten other families.[5]
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Naidoo is particularly well known for organising against evictions.[6] As a result, Abahlali baseMjondolo claims that she has been subject to severe intimidation by the local landlords.[7] She befriended fellow activist Louisa Motha when they were both washing clothes at the same point in the river.[8]
Bishop Rubin Philip has described her as a "courageous activist".[9]
References
- Democracy is on the Brink of Catastrophe, Rhodes University, 2009 Archived 2010-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Gangster Landlord Continues Campaign of Intimidation with Local Police Support, LibCom, 2008
- All Charges Dropped Against the Pemary Ridge Thirteen, Interactivist, 2009
- Outrage over desecration of temple, Corinne Louw, Sowetan, 18 January 2011
- Farrar, Lara (11 June 2008). "Slums offer surprising hope for tomorrow's urban world". CNN. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- The Value of Nothing, Raj Patel, 2009
- On the Casual Bulldozing of a Shembe Temple in Durban, Richard Pithouse, SACSIS, 19 January 2011
- Pithouse, Richard (26 March 2014). "An Urban commons? Notes from South Africa". Community Development Journal. 49 (suppl 1): i31–i43. doi:10.1093/cdj/bsu013. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
- Biko: A bright guiding light in dark times, Address by the Anglican Bishop of Natal at St Philip's Anglican Church, Fingo Village in Grahamstown, 19 September 2012, Pambazuka
External links
- Still UnFree: Video interview with Shamita Naidoo from Motala Heights, Elkartasun Bideak, 2009
- Video Interview with Shamita Naidoo, Project Housing, 2011
- Txaboletan bizi direnak by Elkartasun Bideak, 2009
- Shamita Naidoo, Mail & Guardian Book of South African Women 2012
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