Dear Mandela

Dear Mandela is a 2012 South-African/American documentary focusing on three friends who are members of the shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo.

They fight eviction by making a legal challenge against the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007 which ends up going to the final court of appeal, the Constitutional Court.

The challenge is successful but swiftly results in a violent attack on the Kennedy Road informal settlement in 2009.

[1] With the events of the film happening long after Nelson Mandela stepped down as President of South Africa, his promise to house all citizens is still a central question.

[2][3][4] The film was written, produced and directed by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza.