Squatter City a blog about squatter camps across the world posts a moving piece by M’du Hlongwa, a member of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a squatter organizing group in Durban, South Africa titled “I am a professor of my suffering”
We got beaten for that by the police and some of the NGO people said that we were too stupid to understand what elections were for and that we needed ‘voter education’. They need an education in the politics of the poor. They should come and live in a settlement for even just one week before they say that we are too stupid to understand our own politics.
Tags: Squatter Camps; South Africa
