The eKhenana Commune (English: Canaan Commune) is a prominent land occupation in the historic working-class area of Cato Manor in Durban, South Africa.[1] According to the Socio-Economic Rights Institute "The eKhenana settlement is organised as a cooperative in which residents collectively run a communal kitchen and tuck shop, theatre, poetry and music projects,[2] and care for a vegetable garden named after the late Nkululeko Gwala [assassinated in 2013] as well as a poultry farm named in honour of the late S’fiso Ngcobo [assassinated in 2018]. The Commune has solar power[3] and is also home to a political school that residents named the Frantz Fanon School, as well as the Thuli Ndlovu Community Hall [Ndlovu was assassinated in 2014].[4] The Commune has suffered sustained political repression, including multiple arrests and three assassinations in 2022.[5]
- ^ eKhenana bloodbath – state has a duty to protect human rights defenders, Nomfundo Xolo, 24 November 2022
- ^ eKhenana bloodbath – state has a duty to protect human rights defenders, Nomfundo Xolo, 24 November 2022
- ^ The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in South Africa, Helen Aadnesgaard, African Arguments, 22 August 2023
- ^ The Abahlali baseMjondolo experience exposes South Africa’s shrinking democratic space, Thato Masiangoako, Daily Maverick, 18 October 2022
- ^ The Business of Killing: Assassinations in South Africa, Rumbi Matamba, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, April 2023, Geneva