"One is transported from barricade to courtroom to communal
cooking-pot to dance-floor. You get to see the struggle from the
inside out ... All I know who have read it, feel in fighting form
after putting it down."
--Natal Mercury
"An exceptionally vivid and precise account of daily experiences
in the new class apartheid ... Desai's book tells the story of how
desperation and powerlessness have turned into organized opposition
and an articulate, sophisticated language of resistance."
--Mail & Guardian
When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in
1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over
racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid
did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority of
oppressed South Africans, however. Material inequality has deepened
and new forms of resistance have emerged in commnities that have
discovered a common oppression and solidarty and forged new and
dynamic political identities.
Desai's book follows the growth of the most unexpected of these
community movements, describing from the inside the process through
which the downtrodden regain their dignity and defend the most
basic conditions of life. His book begins with one specific
community, with local government enforcing cut-offs of water and
electricity, and evicting families from their houses whose
breadwinners have lost their jobs. As the Chatsworth community
begins to organize and discover leaders among its ranks, so their
example spreads to other communities in Durban and the
KwaZulu-Natal region, and their struggles build links with those in
other parts of the new South Africa.
We Are the Poors was a majorevent in the life of the South
African Left when the first edition was published there in 2000.
This new edition follows the ongoing course of events to the
present.
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