Abahlali baseMjondolo

Today we gathered for the KZN Provincial Council induction workshop for newly elected leadership. A powerful day of learning, reflection, unity and planning as we prepare for the work ahead. To all comrades elected to serve. Forward with unity, forward with struggle. ✊🏾

The Youth League held a successful assembly in Durban today.

PIE Amendment Bill discussion at the Mbalentle branch in the Eastern Cape.

The Youth League General Assembly is underway in Durban

29 May 2026
Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement

Another Revolutionary has Fallen

Our movement stands shoulder to shoulder with activists across this country in condemning the brutal, calculated assassination of Comrade Mokoena Letsie in Potchefstroom.

Comrade Mokoena was cut down in a hail of bullets by the enemies of the poor and working class. This was an ex*****on carried out by hired guns and cowards who saw in Comrade Mokoena a threat to the system of predatory politics tied to the system of capitalist plunder that keeps our people in chains. He was a threat to the tenderpreneurs, the extortion networks, the mafias that appropriate land to rent and sell it, the corporate bosses, and the corrupt officials who enrich themselves while our communities starve. He was also a committed internationalist who built grassroots support for Palestine.

We refuse to let his name become another statistic in a police docket gathering dust. We refuse to let his murder be washed away with empty statements and candlelight vigils. The state must investigate without delay. There can be no more delays, no more ‘we are investigating’. The people demand the names, motives, and the full network behind this assassination. The killers and those who ordered the hit must be arrested and prosecuted, whether they sit in council chambers or backrooms. They must be brought to justice.

The state must also provide immediate protection for community activists. The blood of Comrade Mokoena will be on their hands if they continue to leave us exposed while our enemies operate with impunity.

To those who pulled the trigger and those who paid for it: you can kill a comrade, but you cannot kill the demand for freedom and you cannot kill a movement. Every bullet fired at us forges more revolutionaries.

To the state: you either investigate, arrest, and bring these killers to book, or you stand exposed as complicit in the war against the poor.

As right-wing forces advance in a pincer movement from parliament and the streets we will continue to work to unite the forces of the principled and democratic left grounded in the membership based organisations of the working class and poor.

We send our deep condolences to Comrade Mokoena Letsie’s family and comrades. He will rest in the honour accorded to all true revolutionaries, all true partisans of the people.

The struggle for freedom and justice for all people everywhere continues.

Amandla!
A Luta Continua!
Justice for Comrade Mokoena Letsie!

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GIWUSA MEDIA ALERT
28 May 2026

GIWUSA DENOUNCES POLITICAL ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE MOKOENA LETSIE – A COLOSSAL WORKING CLASS FIGHTER

The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) is devastated and enraged by the brutal assassination of our comrade, Mokoena Letsie of the Solidarity Action Committee Collective (SACC) and Potch4Palestine, who has just succumbed to his injuries after being shot 17 times in a targeted hit.

Cde Mokoena Letsie was a colossal figure of the working class. He dedicated his life to organising the most marginalised – the informal settlements around Potchefstroom, where communities are waging daily struggles for housing, service delivery, jobs, and human dignity. He was not an activist from a distance; he lived and fought among the poor.

As a leader of the Solidarity Action Committee (SACC) , Cde Letsie worked shoulder to shoulder with GIWUSA on multiple campaigns, including:

• The ongoing Campaign against anti-worker labour laws;
• The SA Energy Embargo for Palestine campaign;
• And numerous other local and international working class solidarity campaigns.

Crucially, the Solidarity Action Committee has taken the historic decision to stand in the upcoming local government elections – to put forward genuine working class and socialist alternatives to the pro-capitalist parties and the deepening crises of their capitalist system and neoliberal policy failures. Cde Letsie’s formidable mass base in the informal settlements made him a potent challenge and a direct threat to the political establishment in Potchefstroom.

It is for this reason – and following three years of sustained intimidation against him, escalating to specific, direct threats over the past two months – that we state with absolute certainty: Cde Mokoena Letsie was politically assassinated. He was killed because he organised the poor. He was killed because he built a working-class alternative to the establishment.

GIWUSA demands the following urgent actions:

1. Immediate Arrests: SAPS must launch a priority homicide investigation and arrest the perpetrators without delay. There must be no protection for those who murder organisers of the poor.
2. No Bail & Maximum Prosecution: Those responsible must be denied bail and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 17 bullets demand maximum justice.
3. Investigate the Three-Year Campaign of Intimidation: The state must investigate the sustained threats leading up to this assassination and prosecute all those involved, including any political or business figures who enabled or ordered this hit.

We call on all workers, trade unions, informal settlement dwellers, and progressive formations to demand justice for Cde Mokoena. The political establishment wanted him silenced. They have spilled blood. But the struggle will not die.

Our deepest condolences to his family, his comrades in SACC, and the Potch4Palestine collective.

_*Amandla! Matla!*_
_*Justice for Mokoena!*_
_*Long live the fighting spirit of the working class!*_

*Issued by:*
The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA)

*For comment call:*
Mametlwe Sebei – GIWUSA President
081 368 0706 / [email protected]

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