Mzonke Poni

[3] The Sunday Times has described him as "the face of an ANC nightmare - an angry activist mobilising the township masses to protest at what he calls the government's failure to create a better life for the poor.

[5] On 1 June 2009 he was arrested on the site of the Macassar Village Land Occupation and charged with public violence.

[6] Abahlali baseMjondolo claimed that the arrest was an act of political intimidation and that Poni was assaulted while in police custody.

[8] In October 2010 Abahlali baseMjondolo in Cape Town called for a month of direct action.

"[13] They also said that in their view the attack from the SACP was really due to the movement's insistence on organising autonomously from the African National Congress.

Mzonke Poni outside the Abahlali baseMjondolo office in Khayelitsha , Cape Town