S'bu Zikode

Zikode was born in the village of Loskop in 1975 and grew up in the town of Estcourt, in the midlands of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mg.co.za/printformat/single/2010-06-14-200-young-south-africans-civil-society |title=200 Young South Africans in Civil Society, Mail & Guardian |date=14 June 2010 |access-date=24 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234939/http://www.mg.co.za/printformat/single/2010-06-14-200-young-south-africans-civil-society |archive-date=19 June 2010 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/61231 |title=Order of the Holy Nativity Awarded to S'bu Zikode |access-date=23 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727043828/http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/61231 |archive-date=27 July 2010 |url-status=live }} He was raised by a single mother working as a domestic worker.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120423081856/http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/capstones/to-be-betrayed-by-your-brother/ To Be Betrayed By Your Brother], Rosaleen Ortiz, City University of New York, 2010 He completed Matric at Bonokuhle High School where he joined the Boy Scouts Movement.[http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/sbu-zikode/1332.article Is this Man the Next Nelson Mandela?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928001601/http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/sbu-zikode/1332.article |date=28 September 2013 }}, by Raj Patel, OZY, 19 September 2013

A few years later he enrolled as a law student at what was formerly known as The University of Durban-Westville and is now part of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. However he was unable to pay fees or rent and in 1997 had to abandon his studies and move to the Kennedy Road shack settlement.[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/26/world/africa/south-africa-apartheid-freedom.html Has South Africa Truly Defeated Apartheid?], New York Times, 26 April 2024 He found work at a nearby petrol station as a pump attendant.[http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090723-unrest-south-african-shantytowns-%E2%80%93-ready-host-world-cup 'Unrest in South African shanty towns – ready to host the World Cup?'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725173902/http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090723-unrest-south-african-shantytowns-%E2%80%93-ready-host-world-cup |date=25 July 2009 }}, The Observers, 23 July 2009{{Cite web |url=http://abahlali.org/node/841 |title=When Choices Can No Longer be Choices |date=28 February 2007 |access-date=11 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930193603/http://abahlali.org/node/841 |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=live }}[][https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/repression-is-always-a-lesson/ South Africa's Enduring UnFreedom], Boston Review, 24 April 2024

Zikode has served a number of terms as the elected head of the South African shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo since October 2005. Before that he was the Chairperson of the Kennedy Road Development Committee. Although the movement campaigns for basic services, like water[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35423 Report Details Toll Taken by Lack of Water, Sanitation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611014123/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35423 |date=11 June 2011 }}, Moyiga Nduru, IPS, 2006 and electricity,[https://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/slums-underground-economy-2020-opinions-contributors-robert-neuwirth.html Economies Go Underground] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113215330/http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/slums-underground-economy-2020-opinions-contributors-robert-neuwirth.html |date=13 November 2010 }}, Robert Neuwirth, Forbes, 2010 as well as land and housing,[http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/448244.html Abahlali baseMjondolo March on Jacob Zuma, Durban, South Africa, 22 March 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207135036/http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/448244.html |date=7 February 2012 }}, UK IndyMedia Zikode is clear that its demands go beyond immediate material needs.{{cite journal|title=In the country of the blind…|author= Bob Catterall|journal=City|date=2007}} He has said that ""The house on its own cannot solve the problem. It's not only money that creates dignity. All governments should accept that our communities are part of the greater society."[https://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/slums-underground-economy-2020-opinions-contributors-robert-neuwirth.html Economies Go Underground] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113215330/http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/slums-underground-economy-2020-opinions-contributors-robert-neuwirth.html |date=13 November 2010 }} Robert Neuwirth, Forbes, 09.09.10, He argues for an immediate assertion of equality[http://abahlali.org/files/hallward_will_of_the_people.pdf "The Will of the People: Notes Towards a Dialectical Voluntarism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001135728/http://abahlali.org/files/hallward_will_of_the_people.pdf |date=1 October 2011 }}, by Peter Hallward, Radical Philosophy, 2009 and for meaningful engagement with the poor by saying that, "The government and academics speak about the poor all the time, but so few want to speak to the poor".[http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2524562.0.0.php "The real winners and losers: of the beautiful game"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810233106/http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2524562.0.0.php |date=10 August 2009 }}, Sunday Herald, 9 August 2009

Commenting in response to Zikode's newspaper article 'We are the Third Force' veteran South African journalist Max du Preez commented that "I have never read anything as compelling, real and disturbing as the piece written in The Star last week by S'bu Zikode".[http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=502&fArticleId=2998655 "Shacks of Fear"], Max Du Preez, Daily News, 17 November 2005

Academic Mark Hunter argues that Zikode evokes a conception of housing rooted in an idea of dignity rather than a technical, numbers driven approach to the housing crisis.Love in a Time of AIDS, Mark Hunter, UKZN Press, 2010

Zikode's writing has been anthologised in the Verso Book of Dissent[http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/238-s%27bu-zikode,-who-features-in-the-verso-book-of-dissent,-to-speak-in-new-york-next-week] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213082441/http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/238-s%27bu-zikode,-who-features-in-the-verso-book-of-dissent,-to-speak-in-new-york-next-week |date=13 December 2013 }} The Verso Book of Dissent and published in newspapers like The Guardian[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/south-africa-fight-decent-housing-assassination Despite the state's violence, our fight to escape the mud and fire of South Africa's slums will continue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225004409/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/south-africa-fight-decent-housing-assassination |date=25 February 2017 }}, The Guardian, 11 November 2013 and Libération.[http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/12/10/les-promesses-non-tenues-de-nelson-mandela_965498 Les promesses non tenues de Nelson Mandela] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213063121/http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2013/12/10/les-promesses-non-tenues-de-nelson-mandela_965498 |date=13 December 2013 }}, Libération'', 10 December 2013

On 16 December 2009 he was presented with the Order of the Holy Nativity by Bishop Rubin Phillip.{{Cite web |url=http://abahlali.org/node/6126 |title=Order of Service for the Presentation of the Order of the Holy Nativity to S'bu Zikode |date=16 December 2009 |access-date=16 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613203324/http://abahlali.org/node/6126 |archive-date=13 June 2010 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.sabcnews.com/portal/site/SABCNews/menuitem.5c4f8fe7ee929f602ea12ea1674daeb9/?vgnextoid=55d6a6fd9d795210VgnVCM10000077d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default |title=Shack Dweller's Leader Honoured, SABC |access-date=17 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604020639/http://www.sabcnews.com/portal/site/SABCNews/menuitem.5c4f8fe7ee929f602ea12ea1674daeb9/?vgnextoid=55d6a6fd9d795210VgnVCM10000077d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=live }}[http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=154873&sn=Marketingweb+detail Anglican Church honours Abahlali leader] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722081008/http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=154873&sn=Marketingweb+detail |date=22 July 2011 }}, Paul Trewhela, Politicsweb, 18 December 2009

In 2012 the Mail & Guardian newspaper declared him to be one of the two hundred most important young South Africans.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mg.co.za/printformat/single/2010-06-14-200-young-south-africans-civil-society |title=200 Young South Africans in Civil Society, Mail & Guardian |date=14 June 2010 |access-date=24 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234939/http://www.mg.co.za/printformat/single/2010-06-14-200-young-south-africans-civil-society |archive-date=19 June 2010 |url-status=live }}

In 2018 a new land occupation in Germiston in the East Rand, outside of Johannesburg, was named after Zikode.[https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-05-14-when-homes-are-built-in-the-dark-and-demolished-in-daylight/ When homes are built in the dark and demolished in daylight] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514012811/https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-05-14-when-homes-are-built-in-the-dark-and-demolished-in-daylight/ |date=14 May 2018 }}, Dennis Webster, The Daily Maverick, 14 May 2018

In 2019 a new land occupation in Tembisa outside of Johannesburg was named after Zikode[https://www.newframe.com/housing-activists-under-threat-in-thembisa/ Housing activists under threat in Thembisa], Maru Attwood, New Frame, 2022

On 25 March 2021 he was announced as the 2021 recipient of the Per Anger Prize, awarded by the Swedish government for humanitarian work and initiatives in the name of democracy.[https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/forum_for_levande_historia/pressreleases/per-anger-priset-till-raettighetskaempe-i-sydafrikas-kaakstaeder-3084926 Per Anger-priset till rättighetskämpe i Sydafrikas kåkstäder ]

In February 2006 Zikode was prevented by the police from taking up an invitation to appear on a television talk show.[https://archive.today/20120718071806/http://secure.financialmail.co.za/06/0217/currents/acurrent.htm BATTLE TO BE HEARD], by Carol Paton, Financial Mail, 16 February 2006 In September 2006 Zikode, and the then Deputy Chair of the movement Philani Zungu, were arrested on trumped up charges and tortured by Superintendent Glen Nayager in the Sydenham Police Station.[http://abahlali.org/node/871 "Shack Dwellers on the Move"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104094943/http://abahlali.org/node/871 |date=4 January 2009 }}, Radical Philosophy, January 2007[http://www.mg.co.za/article/2006-09-16-i-was-punched-beaten 'I was punched, beaten'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121095752/http://mg.co.za/article/2006-09-16-i-was-punched-beaten |date=21 January 2012 }}, Niren Tolsi, Mail & Guardian, 16 September 2006,

In September 2009, Kennedy Road was attacked by a mob reportedly affiliated with the African National Congress.[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/24/south-africa-shack-bahlali-basejondolo South Africa's shack-dwellers fight back] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722134318/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/24/south-africa-shack-bahlali-basejondolo |date=22 July 2016 }}, by Patrick Kingsely, The Guardian, 24 September 2012 Violence continued for days.{{cite news|url=http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/94212f4a70a54a77a811b7fb94c15069/28-09-2009-10-36/Dbn_attackers_associated_with_ANC|title=Attackers associated with ANC|publisher=News24|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105235359/http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/94212f4a70a54a77a811b7fb94c15069/28-09-2009-10-36/Dbn_attackers_associated_with_ANC|archive-date=5 January 2010|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://abahlali.org/node/5771|title=The Attacks Continue in the Presence of the Police and Senior ANC Leaders|publisher=Abahlali baseMjondolo|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702182614/http://abahlali.org/node/5771|archive-date=2 July 2011|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://antieviction.org.za/2009/09/28/joint-statement-on-the-attacks-on-the-kennedy-road-informal-settlement-in-durban/|title=Joint Statement on the attacks on the Kennedy Road Informal Settlement in Durban|publisher=Professor John Dugard SC, et al|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018040141/http://antieviction.org.za/2009/09/28/joint-statement-on-the-attacks-on-the-kennedy-road-informal-settlement-in-durban/|archive-date=18 October 2013|df=dmy-all}} Zikode's home was destroyed during the violence and he and his family fled.{{cite news|url=http://abahlali.org/node/5772|title=S'bu Zikode's House after the attack|publisher=Abahlali baseMjondolo|access-date=29 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001144739/http://abahlali.org/node/5772|archive-date=1 October 2009|url-status=live}} Zikode, who went underground for some months[http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88883 SOUTH AFRICA: Poor people's movement draws government wrath] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100519183108/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88883 |date=19 May 2010 }}, IRIN, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 22 April 2010{{Cite web |url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-12-23-freedoms-prisoners |title=Freedom's prisoners, Mail & Guardian |date=23 December 2009 |access-date=24 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727034355/http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-12-23-freedoms-prisoners |archive-date=27 July 2010 |url-status=live }} because he feared for his life, considered himself a political refugee.{{cite news|url=http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59122|title=The ANC has invaded Kennedy Road|publisher=PambazukaNews|access-date=2 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004090824/http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59122|archive-date=4 October 2009|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5186050|title=Call for solidarity among shack dwellers|publisher=Mercury}}

In its 2012 South Africa report Amnesty International reported that Zikode had been publicly threatened with violence by a senior ANC official.[https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/south-africa/report-2012 Amnesty International South Africa Report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231125531/http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/south-africa/report-2012 |date=31 December 2014 }}, 2012

In April 2013 Zikode, along with two others, successfully sued the Minister of Police for violence against his person.[http://www.seri-sa.org/index.php/38-latest-news/161-minister-of-police-to-pay-damages-to-abahlali-members-for-police-brutality-22-april-2013 Minister of Police to pay damages to Abahlali members for police brutality] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118072246/http://www.seri-sa.org/index.php/38-latest-news/161-minister-of-police-to-pay-damages-to-abahlali-members-for-police-brutality-22-april-2013 |date=18 January 2016 }}, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa

In July 2018, following the assassination of a number of its members, Abahlali baseMjondolo issued a statement claiming that Zikode's life was "in grave danger".[https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-07-08-abahlali-basemjondolo-leader-sbu-zikodes-life-is-in-grave-danger Abahlali baseMjondolo leader S’bu Zikode’s life is ‘in grave danger’] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709224815/https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-07-08-abahlali-basemjondolo-leader-sbu-zikodes-life-is-in-grave-danger/ |date=9 July 2018 }}, Musawenkosi Cabe, Magnificent Mndebele and Dennis Webster, The Daily Maverick, 8 July 2018 It was later reported that Zikode was living underground.[https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1999262/abahlali-civic-leader-in-hiding-from-hitmen-again/#.W36mMlUUk1M.facebook Abahlali civic leader in hiding from hitmen… again] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825212608/https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/1999262/abahlali-civic-leader-in-hiding-from-hitmen-again/#.W36mMlUUk1M.facebook |date=25 August 2018 }}, Eric Naki, The Citizen, 23 August 2018

Zikode supports building radical democracy from below and has called for 'a living communism'.[http://www.interfacejournal.net/2010/02/interface-issue-2-civil-society-vs-social-movements/ To resist all degradations and divisions: an interview with S’bu Zikode] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006104445/http://www.interfacejournal.net/2010/02/interface-issue-2-civil-society-vs-social-movements/ |date=6 October 2014 }}, Interface, 2009[http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2011/05/politics-of-grieving---drucilla-cornell.php Politics of Grieving] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126053228/http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/2011/05/politics-of-grieving---drucilla-cornell.php |date=26 January 2012 }}, by Drucilla Cornell, Social Text, 2011[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/24/south-africa-shack-bahlali-basejondolo South Africa's shack-dwellers fight back] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722134318/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/24/south-africa-shack-bahlali-basejondolo |date=22 July 2016 }}, by Patrick Kingsely, The Guardian, 24 September 2012 He has stressed that land is fundamental to his politics.[http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/abahlali-basemjondolo-no-freedom-without-land/ No freedom without land] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006115140/http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/abahlali-basemjondolo-no-freedom-without-land/ |date=6 October 2014 }}, The Daily Vox, 2013 He is an advocate of land occupations.[http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/abahlali-basemjondolo-no-freedom-without-land/ No freedom without land] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006115140/http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/abahlali-basemjondolo-no-freedom-without-land/ |date=6 October 2014 }}, The Daily Vox, 2013 and supports the occupation of unused land.[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/south-africa-fight-decent-housing-assassination Despite the state's violence, our fight to escape the mud and fire of South Africa's slums will continue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225004409/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/south-africa-fight-decent-housing-assassination |date=25 February 2017 }}, S'bu Zikode, The Guardian, 11 November 2013 He is also an advocate of what he terms 'living politics',[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sq6e5H_1gM S'bu Zikode on Living Politics], 'Sleeping Giant', 2007 a form of politics that speaks directly to lived experience and is expressed in plain language.

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• [http://www.eblackstudies.org/ebooks/ubuntu.pdf Revolutionary Ubuntu]
• [http://abahlali.org/node/5843 Living Learning]
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• [http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/61231 Citation for the Order of the Holy Nativity to S'bu Zikode]
• [http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/sbu-zikode/1332.article Is this man the next Nelson Mandela?]

• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/17 We are the Third Force]
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• [http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3322172 We are the Restless Majority]
• [http://abahlali.org/node/551 Make Crime History]
• [http://www.metamute.org/en/node/10945 Silencing the Right to Speak, is taking away Citizenship]
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• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/5962 Democracy is on the Brink of Catastrophe]
• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/7187 Serving our Life Sentence in the Shacks] (with Zodwa Nsibande)
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• [http://abahlali.org/node/7453 When Loyalty Becomes a Threat to Society]
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• [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article20239 The Politic of Land and Housing], Presentation to University of Chicago Students in Cape Town
• [http://abahlali.org/node/8263 Transcription of talk] on Frantz Fanon, Rhodes University, South Africa, 2011
• [http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/abahlali-basemjondolo-no-freedom-without-land/ No freedom without land], 2013
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• [http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/55955 Resisting degradations and divisions] (text)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJRAUBthF_w Interview with S'bu Zikode, 30 September 2009] (video)

• [http://www.vimeo.com/5971780 Txaboletan bizi direnak] by Elkartasun Bideak, 2009 (English dialogue with Basque subtitles)
• [http://abahlali.org/node/5355 Amandla Awethu] by Elkartasun Bideak, 2009
• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/5183 From the Shacks to the Constitutional Court] by Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2008
• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/3356 Dear Mandela] by Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2008
• [http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100032170 A Place in the City] by Jenny Morgan, 2008
• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/2659 The Right to Know: The Fight for Open Democracy in South Africa] by Ben Cashdan, 2007
• [http://www.abahlali.org/node/1733 Nayager Falls, Abahlali Rises] by Sally Gilles and Fazel Khan, 2007
• [http://abahlali.org/node/149 Breyani & the Councillor] by Sally Gilles and Fazel Khan, 2006
• [http://abahlali.org/node/611 Kennedy Road and the Councillor] by Aoibheann O'Sullivan, 2005

• [http://abahlali.org/node/12935 Talk on Repression in Durban], Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 10 October 2013

• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20101025025829/http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2009/12/12/dada-south-for-sbu-zikode/ Dada South (for S'bu Zikode)]}} by Aryan Kaganof
• [http://www.abahlali.org/files/choir.mp3 Abahlali] by the Dlamini King Brothers

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