The Poor People's Alliance is a network of radical grassroots

Grassroots

A grassroots movement is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures...

 movements in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. It was formed in 2008 after the Action Alliance, formed in December 2006, was expanded to include two more organisations.

The following organisations are members of the alliance:

1. Abahlali baseMjondolo
   Abahlali baseMjondolo
   Abahlali baseMjondolo , also known as AbM or the red shirts is a shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa which is well known for its campaigning for public housing. The movement grew out of a road blockade organized from the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the city of Durban in early 2005 and now...
   
    in the province of KwaZulu-Natal
   KwaZulu-Natal
   KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
   
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2. Abahlali baseMjondolo in the province of the Western Cape
   Western Cape
   The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
   
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3. The Landless People's Movement in the province of Gauteng
   Gauteng
   Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...
   
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4. The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
   Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
   The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign is a non-racial popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa...
   
    in the province of the Western Cape
   Western Cape
   The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the much larger Cape Province...
   
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5. The Rural Network of KwaZulu-Natal
   KwaZulu-Natal
   KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....
   
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The Poor People's Alliance refuses electoral politics and resolved to boycott the 2009 national elections under the slogan "No Land! No House! No Vote!

No Land! No House! No Vote!

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...

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The Poor People's Alliance has actively supported the struggle of the eMacambini

EMacambini

eMacambini is a rural area in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa which is mostly populated by members of the Macambini clan. It is near Mandeni on the Zululand coast, just north of Durban and close to the new King Shaka International Airport....

 Community against mass eviction by Ruwaad Holdings and KwaZulu-Natal Premier S'bu Ndebele

S'bu Ndebele

Sibusiso Joel "S'bu" Ndebele , is the current Minister of Transport in the Cabinet of South Africa...

 and the African National Congress

African National Congress

The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...

Provincial Government of KwaZulu-Natal.