S'bu Zikode

S'bu Zikode
Sibusiso Innocent Zikode
S'bu Zikode at the Constitutional Court, Johannesburg, 14 May 2009
Born
Sibusiso Innocent Zikode

1975
South Africa, Loskop
NationalitySouth African
Alma mater
  1. Completed Matric at Bonokuhle High School where he joined the Boy Scouts Movement.[1]
  2. University of Durban-Westville and is now part of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Known forCurrent president of the South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo.
Notable workOn 16 December 2009 he was presented with the Order of the Holy Nativity by Bishop Rubin Phillip.[2][3][4]

Sibusiso Innocent Zikode is the president of the South African shack dwellers' movement, which he co-founded with others in 2005.[5] Abahlali baseMjondolo[6][7] claims to have an audited paid up membership of over 115 000 across South Africa.[8] His politics have been described as 'anti-capitalist'.[9] According to the Mail & Guardian "Under his stewardship, ABM has made steady gains for housing rights."[10]

  1. ^ Is this Man the Next Nelson Mandela? Archived 28 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine, by Raj Patel, OZY, 19 September 2013
  2. ^ "Order of Service for the Presentation of the Order of the Holy Nativity to S'bu Zikode". 16 December 2009. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
  3. ^ "Shack Dweller's Leader Honoured, SABC". Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  4. ^ Anglican Church honours Abahlali leader Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Paul Trewhela, Politicsweb, 18 December 2009
  5. ^ Has South Africa Truly Defeated Apartheid?, New York Times, 26 April 2024
  6. ^ "Freedom's prisoners, Mail & Guardian". 23 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
  7. ^ South Africa's new apartheid? Archived 25 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Riz Khan, Al Jazeera, 23 November 2010
  8. ^ Abahlali baseMjondolo demands justice for its members lost to “the politics of blood”, Peoples' Dispatch, 3 October 2023
  9. ^ The Politics of Grieving & the Ubuntu Electricians Archived 21 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Drucilla Cornell, Social Text, 2011
  10. ^ "200 Young South Africans in Civil Society, Mail & Guardian". 14 June 2010. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2010.