thumb|right|300px|The Landless People's Movement outside the Constitutional Court, 14 May 2009 The Landless People's Movement (LPM) is an independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa. It is a national movement formed in South Africa on 24 July, 2001 following a meeting between emerging regional and provincial landless people's organisations. It represents rural people and people living in shack settlements in cities.

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  • thumb|right|300px|The Landless People's Movement outside the Constitutional Court, 14 May 2009 The Landless People's Movement (LPM) is an independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa. It is a national movement formed in South Africa on 24 July, 2001 following a meeting between emerging regional and provincial landless people's organisations. It represents rural people and people living in shack settlements in cities. Its stated aims are to The movement was initially formed and support by an NGO, the National Land Committee (NLC), but in 2003 it broke with the NLC and has since operated autonomously. On 13 November 2003 the movement issues a Memorandum to then President Thabo Mbeki asking why "why is development brought to us through guns and the terror" and demanding an immediate halt to all evictions on farms and from urban squatter camps. In 2008 the Protea South community in Johannesburg won a landmark court order against the city of Johannesburg.
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  • thumb|right|300px|The Landless People's Movement outside the Constitutional Court, 14 May 2009 The Landless People's Movement (LPM) is an independent social movement made up of the poor and landless in South Africa. It is a national movement formed in South Africa on 24 July, 2001 following a meeting between emerging regional and provincial landless people's organisations. It represents rural people and people living in shack settlements in cities.
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  • Landless Peoples Movement
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