We are the poors
Subtitle: community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa
By: Ashwin Desai.
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Poor -- South Africa.; Blacks -- South Africa -- Economic conditions.; South Africa -- Economic policy.
Description: "When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of solidarity and resistance have emerged in communities that have forged new and dynamic political identities.".

"We Are the Poors follows the growth of the most unexpected of these community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.

It describes from the inside how the downtrodden regain their dignity and create hope for a better future in the face of a neoliberal onslaught, and shows the human faces of the struggle against the corporate model of globalization in a Third World country."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A note on currency; title: Chatsworth; title: Harinarian "Moses" Judhoo in the promised land; title: How are these people even able to exist?; title: A social timebomb starts ticking; title: The struggle and its fruits : from the militant eighties to the end of apartheid; title: "We are the poors"; title: Upgrading the houses and the return of relocation; title: Is it legal to be poor? : evictions and resistance; title: Faces in the crowd; title: Working life : from rags to tatters; title: Thulisile Manqele's water; title: Revolt in Isipingo; title: Mpumalanga's liberated zone (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke); title: Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig; title: Labor and community : the Volkswagen and Engen strikes; title: Chatsworth re-ignites; title: global and local : the world conference against racism and the Durban social forum; title: Building a new movement?; title: Durban Social Forum declaration.