On the Shooting of a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
POEM: On the Shooting of a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Who among us will be remembered? None of us will survive. Not the journalist, the one who wrote about Marikana, about the shooting of striking miners, which preceded the shooting of a 17-year-old girl. Nor the filmmaker, the one who made the documentary about the social movement […]
Broken Heart(h)s and Lives
On the night of September 26, 2009 members of shackdweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo’s youth wing were attacked by an armed mob chanting anti-Pondo slogans at the Kennedy Road settlement’s community hall in Durban. In the dark the violence spread. In the light of day, two people were found dead, while hundreds others from the […]