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2 unusual facts about No Land! No House! No Vote!


No Land! No House! No Vote!

On 8 February 2009, the South African Police allegedly beat and tear-gassed Gugulethu residents who were holding a meeting about housing because the ANC provincial chairperson Mcebisi Skwatsha claimed they were disrupting voters registration.

According to South African President Jacob Zuma "If you do not vote, you are depriving yourself of a freedom we have fought for and given you.


UnFreedom Day

In 2009 the South African police initially tried to ban the UnFreedom Day event held by Abahlali baseMjondolo, together with the Anti-Eviction Campaign, the Landless People's Movement, the Rural Network and the eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee (all of these movements supported the No Land! No House! No Vote! campaign) in the Kennedy Road settlement in Durban.


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