Fire is a serious hazard in shack settlements in South Africa. It has been argued that "On average in South Africa over the last five years there are ten...

people. Shacks in Kayamandi, South Africa A shack by the Tyrnävä River (Tyrnävänjoki) in Tyrnävä, Finland. In relatively affluent areas, shacks are often...

[aɓaˈɬali ɓasɛm̩dʒɔˈndɔːlo], in English: "the residents of the shacks") is a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which primarily campaigns...

system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised...

figures in 10 years". Mail & Guardian. Dlamini, Penwell (2 April 2014). "Gauteng under shack attack". The Times. "Amandla! Protest in the New South Africa"....

The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations in South Africa are divided...

RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer, which was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business...

for fires, and electrical accidents, The Joe Slovo squatter camp, in Cape Town, houses an estimated 20,000 people. Shack dwellers in South Africa organise...

locations in South Africa have been renamed. The following article covers the name changes in South Africa by province since the 1994 South African general...

South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: explaining xenophobia in contemporary South Africa'...

Land invasion in South Africa is seen as the illegal occupation of land with the intention of erecting dwellings or establishing a settlement on it and...

supply and sanitation in South Africa is characterised by both achievements and challenges. After the end of Apartheid South Africa's newly elected government...

1994 - August 20, 2022) was a land activist and a prominent leader in the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. He was chairperson of the movement's...

in South Africa. State President: P.W. Botha. Chief Justice: Pieter Jacobus Rabie. January 1 – South African Defence Force servicemen are attacked in...

league in 2009. She was critical of the impact of the FIFA 2010 World Cup on shack dwellers in Durban. In 2006 she was badly burnt in a shack fire. In 2009...

Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships...

South Africa is a culturally and ethnically diverse country with twelve official languages and a population known for its multilingualism. Mixing languages...

violence in South Africa is among the highest recorded in the world. Police statistics of reported rapes as a per capita figure has been dropping in recent...

Innocent Zikode is the president of the South African shack dwellers' movement, which he co-founded with others in 2005. Abahlali baseMjondolo claims to...

Liberalism in South Africa has encompassed various traditions and parties. The moderate South African Party and its successor, the United Party, formed...

Keep Left is a small Trotskyist group in South Africa which is affiliated to the International Socialist Tendency led by the Socialist Workers Party of...

apartheid began in 1990 and continued until President Nelson Mandela's electoral victory as South Africa's first Black president in the first democratic...

February 2006). "Struggle Is a School: The Rise of a Shack Dwellers' Movement in Durban, South Africa". Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 10...

Montague Gardens near Cape Town, South Africa. Joe Slovo Park is a small township which was designed to replace the shack settlement of Marconi Beam with...

and join the shack-dweller's movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. He then became a leading figure in the struggle against housing corruption in the area which...

The South African Students Congress (SASCO) is a South African student organisation currently led by Vezinhlanhla Simelane as the organization's President...

popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa. It was formed in November 2000 with the aim of fighting evictions, water...

longtime subtenant, a record store called The Record Shack owned by black South African Sikhulu Shange. African-American activist Al Sharpton led protests outside...

Human rights in South Africa are protected under the constitution. The 1998 Human Rights report by Myles Nadioo noted that the government generally respected...

(born 17 November 1952) is a South African businessman and politician serving as the 5th and current President of South Africa since 2018. A former anti-apartheid...