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More protests flare over lack of services
Charles Molele Published:Jul 12, 2009 – The Times
‘They want to dump us in another slum without clean water, electricity or sanitation’
Huge shack settlement latest to ignite over government’s poor delivery record Read the rest of this entry »
8 July 2009, 3:44 a.m.
Emergency Press Statement from Abahlali baseKennedy
Kennedy Road is Burning Again – The Fires Must Stop, the Settlements Must be Electrified Immediately
Our settlement is burning again. More than a hundred shacks have been lost. It’s too early to say if anyone has been hurt or killed in this fire.
The cause of the fire was, again, a paraffin stove which means that, in reality, the cause of the fire was again the eThekwini Municipality’s inhumane refusal to provide electricity to shack dwellers or to allow us to access electricity on our own. Read the rest of this entry »
GUGULETHU and Somali shopkeepers will hold a follow-up mass meeting tomorrowto cement peace efforts following threats to renew the xenophobic violence of a year ago which displaced 20 000 refugees and migrants. Read the rest of this entry »
On the 1st of July 2009, local business and Somali shopkeepers began implementation of preliminary aspects of the deal sought to ease xenophobic tensions between the two groups. The joint committee with the support of the Anti-Eviction Campaign distributed copies of the deal to all shops in the area. Shopkeepers then began to move their shops at least 100 meters away from one another – the deadline for this action being the end of July.
On Wednesday, the 8th of July at 15h30, the AEC will mediate a follow-up mass meeting of local businesses and Somali shopkeepers.
In addition, the local and provincial ministries of economics and tourism added proposals to provide skills training scholarships to a paltry 23 local businesspeople throughout the entire Western Cape. Local in Gugulethu have rejected this proposal as insulting and merely a PR campaign by government. Read the rest of this entry »
Government leaders have branded service delivery protests in Happy Valley earlier on Monday as “purely political” and have refused to meet with the community. Read the rest of this entry »
AEC Note: Tokyo Sekwale, owner of a R56 million house, and a man who cited matchbox houses as one of his reasons for taking up arms against apartheid, declares protest against ‘housing’ far worse than apartheid’s matchbox houses to be ‘anarchy’ that will be met with ‘zero tolerance’….Also, see the Media Briefing below where Sexwale compares protesting families to armies of people holding bazookas….Also, now that Thubelisha and Trafalgar are gone, Joe Slovo Phase 1 will now be managed by the corrupt and problematic Cape Town Community Housing Company.
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Sexwale warns unruly protesters
July 01 2009 at 10:45AM By Gaye DavisHuman Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has warned that the government will take tough action against people who want to render any part of the country ungovernable. Read the rest of this entry »
July 01, 2009 Edition 1
Caryn Dolley – Cape Times
IN an effort to keep the peace between the two groups, local and Somali traders in Gugulethu today plan to start moving their stores so they are at least 100 metres apart.
It is not yet clear how long the process will take or how many shops need to be moved. Read the rest of this entry »
July 03, 2009 Edition 2
Karen Breytenbach – Cape Times
A HEATED debate has broken out in legal and academic circles over the City of Cape Town’s decision to axe a top law firm from its panel of attorneys for taking on a case for a group of poor litigants against the municipality. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Pierre De Vos
One of the most important but often neglected aspects of the Rule of Law is the requirement that individuals must be able to enforce their rights and legal entitlements in a court of law. At the heart of the Rule of Law is the notion that we are a rule-based society and that everyone – no matter how powerful or weak – must have the equal chance to enforce their rights and legal entitlements as set out by law. Read the rest of this entry »
A PORT Elizabeth girl was admitted to Livingstone Hospital after being shot in the head, allegedly by police, during a protest action in Kwazakhele today (July 1). Read the rest of this entry »
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