| Date | 12 March 2013—present |
|---|---|
| Location | Cato Crest area, in Durban, South Africa |
| Participants | Abahlali baseMjondolo movement African National Congress eThekwini Municipality South African Police Service |
| Deaths | 15 March 2013: 1 Thembinkosi Qumbelo[1] 25 June 2013: 1 Nkululeko Gwala[2] 30 September 2013: 1 Nqobile Nzuza[3] |
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Marikana Land Occupation (Durban)
Marikana Land Occupation (Durban) in Cato Crest, South Africa
In March 2013 around a thousand people occupied a piece of land in Cato Crest, Durban and named it Marikana after the Marikana miners' strike.[4][5][6] Mayor James Nxumalo blamed the occupation on migrants from the Eastern Cape.[7][8] He was strongly criticised for this by the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo who said that "The City Hall is red with blood".[9]
- ^ From Lusaka to Marikana, SACSIS, 19 March 2013
- ^ Cato Crest land hunger of Marikana proportions, Mail & Guardian, 6 September 2013
- ^ "In Durban's Cato Manor, death by protest death by dissent", Daily Maverick, South Africa, 30 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013
- ^ ‘Migrants’ are fuelling Durban’s housing backlog, By Arthi Sanpath and Sihle Mthembu, Independent on Saturday, 16 March 2013
- ^ Shack dwellers invade Durban, Lee Rondganger and Nkululeko Nene, Daily News, 14 March 2013
- ^ "Poor people can think for themselves", Workers' Liberty, 27 March 2015
- ^ There will be blood, Daily Maverick, 27 September 2013
- ^ ‘Migrants’ are fuelling Durban’s housing backlog, By Arthi Sanpath and Sihle Mthembu, Independent on Saturday, 16 March 2013
- ^ Nigel Gumede Must Go, Abahlali baseMjondolo, 19 March 2013