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No Land! No House! No Vote! is the name of a campaign by a number of poor people's movements in South Africa that calls for the boycotting of the vote and a general rejection of party politics and vote banking.〔(By Voting We Are Only Choosing Our Oppressors ), Soundz of the South〕 The name is meant to imply that if government does not deliver on issues important to affected communities (such as land and housing) these movements will not vote. ==History== The ''No Land! No House! No Vote!'' campaign began as a national campaign by the South African Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) in 2004. Originally called the ''No Land! No Vote!'' campaign, the Landless People's Movement and the National Land Committee argued that voters have to be registered in their home ward to vote and that it would be impossible to vote if families were under threat of eviction or had no secure tenure. Amnesty International has reported that LPM activists were tortured during the 2004 national government elections after taking on a ‘No Land! No Vote’ position. In 2006, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo〔(Battle to be Heard ), by Carol Paton, ''Financial Mail'', 17 February 2006〕 movements boycotted the municipal elections under the banner of this campaign. The AEC held an election day march in Cape Town saying they would abstain from voting. A march by Abahlali baseMjondolo under the banner of the ''No Land! No House! No Vote!'' campaign was illegally banned by the Durban Municipality and was met with police repression. In 2008, the Landless Peoples Movement, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Rural Network joined to form the Poor People's Alliance. In 2009, the Alliance voted to boycott the national elections under the ''No Land! No House! No Vote!'' banner.〔(Resistance Not Ballots; Mass Organisation Not Authoritarian Leaders ), Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, 9 May 2010〕 During the 2009 national election campaign, the ''No Vote!'' campaign suffered severe repression by political parties and police. On 8 February 2009, the South African Police allegedly beat and tear-gassed Gugulethu residents who were holding a meeting about housing because the ANC provincial chairperson Mcebisi Skwatsha claimed they were disrupting voters registration. Eight members of the Landless Peoples Movement were also arrested in March 2009 and some claim that this is related to the ''No Vote!'' campaign by the Poor Peoples Alliance. In the 2009 elections 39% of potential voters supported the ANC.〔(SA rulers need to find new ways to carry citizens with them, Anthony Butler, Business Day, 27 July 2009 )〕 Abahlali baseMjondolo called for a boycott of the 2011 local government elections.〔(SOUTH AFRICA: Poor people's movement draws government wrath ), IRIN,UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 22 April 2010〕〔(W Cape voters ‘not predictable’ ), Quinton Mtyala and Babalo Ndenze, ''The Cape Argus'', 18 May 2011〕〔(‘No Land! No House! No Vote!’ ), ''The Mercury'', By SINEGUGU NDLOVU AND BRONWYN FOURIE, 19 May 2011〕 They were joined by a range of other social movements including the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, the Mandela Park Backyarders, Sikhula Sonke, the South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement and the Landless People's Movement.〔(The revolt of South Africa’s untouchables ), Pambazuka Press, 9 March 2011〕 Local community organisations also organised vote strikes in a number of towns around the country including, for instance, King William's Town,〔(We won’t vote for ‘a stranger’ ), Vuvu Vena, ''The Daily Dispatch'', 19 May 2011〕 Ficksburg,〔(Disillusioned voters snub Ficksburg poll ), Kwanele Sosibo, ''Mail & Guardian'', 20 May 2011〕 Grahamstown〔(Unhappy Tantyi residents stay away from polls ) by Thembeni Plaatjie, Grocott's Mail, 20 May 2011〕 and Cato Ridge.〔(ANC choice of candidate sparks political unrest ) 20 May 2011, KARREN BOWDEN AND LEANNE JANSEN, The Mercury〕 A total of 42% of registered voters did not vote in the elections.〔(Elephant will ignore the DA ‘ant’ at its own peril ), AUBREY MATSHIQI, ''Business Day'', 23 May 2011〕 It has been reported that "Nearly 75% of South Africans aged 20–29 did not vote in the 2011 (government ) elections" and that "South Africans in that age group were more likely to have taken part in violent (sic) street protests against the local ANC than to have voted for the ruling party".〔(Deep Read: 'Born free' voters may not choose ANC ), JON HERSKOVITZ, ''Mail & Guardian'', 29 January 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「No Land! No House! No Vote!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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