Landless People's Movement

This article is about the social movement in South Africa. For the political party in Namibia, see Landless People's Movement (Namibia).

The Landless People's Movement outside the Constitutional Court, 14 May 2009

The Landless People's Movement is an independent social movement in South Africa. It consisted of rural people and people living in shack settlements in cities.[1] The Landless People's Movement boycotted parliamentary elections[2] and had a history of conflict with the African National Congress.[3] The Landless People's Movement was affiliated to Via Campesina[4] internationally and its Johannesburg branches to the Poor People's Alliance in South Africa.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Silencing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ The Jacob Zuma Cargo Cult and the “Implosion” of Alliance Politics, by Michael Schmidt, Anarkismo, 2009
  3. ^ The seed of a new opposition?Business Day, 7 February 2011
  4. ^ World Social Forum – Thursday 10 February, The Guardian