Bandile Mdlalose is a former general secretary of the South African shackdwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo.
She is now the President of the Community Justice Movement which operates in some informal settlements of Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal.
[3] In October 2013, Bandile Mdlalose was arrested on a charge of public violence at the Marikana land occupation in Durban.
She was held at Cato Manor police station; groups such as Amnesty International and War on Want petitioned for her release.
[6][7] Bandile Mdlalose wrote that South Africans "live in a Democratic Prison" because democracy sends police and private security to evict poor people and "smash" their struggles.