Louisa Motha was co-ordinator of the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement for a number of years beginning in 2004.
[1] She lives in the Motala Heights shack settlement in Pinetown near the city of Durban in South Africa.
[2][3] Motha became friends with fellow activist Shamita Naidoo when they met washing their clothes in the river.
[4] She is particularly well known for organising against evictions[5] and was a strong critic of the Slums Act.
[6] She also started a women's gardening group called the Motola Diggers.