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.