I was sitting in Heathrow airport in March 2022, preparing to head back to South Africa, when I read about the death of Ayanda Ngila. I knew about the movement he belonged to, Abahlali baseMjondolo, from a story several years earlier where two ward councilors had been convicted for ordering an assassination of one of […]

Ayanda Ngila was assassinated in the Ekhenana communal garden in Durban, South Africa, on the 8th of March, 2022. Ayanda was 30 years old and shot in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. He was fixing a water pipe in front of women and children and as he went down he yelled for […]

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Ayanda Ngila was assassinated in the Ekhenana communal garden in Durban, South Africa, on the 8th of March, 2022. Ayanda was 30 years old and shot in broad daylight in the middle of the afternoon. He was fixing a water pipe in front of women and children and as he went down he yelled for […]

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