Date | 12 March 2013 | —present
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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] |
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]