Includes bibliographical references and index.

A note on currency -- Chatsworth -- Harinarian "Moses" Judhoo in the promised land -- How are these people even able to exist? -- A social timebomb starts ticking -- The struggle and its fruits : from the milit ant eighties to the end of apartheid -- "We are the poors" -- Upgrading the houses and the return of relocation -- Is it legal to be poor? : e victions and resistance -- Faces in the crowd -- Working life : from ra gs to tatters -- Thulisile Manqele's water -- Revolt in Isipingo -- Mpu malanga's liberated zone (co-authored with Heinrich Bohmke) -- Fighting neoliberalism in Soweto and Tafelsig -- Labor and community : the Volk swagen and Engen strikes -- Chatsworth re-ignites -- global and local : the world conference against racism and the Durban social forum -- Bui lding a new movement? -- Durban Social Forum declaration.