Khayelitsha Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Alert
Friday May 14th 2004
12 noon
The Masondwana family who was evicted yesterday from E-Section in Khayelitsha has been re-evicted again this morning. This happened after the family returned back to their house last night and private security guards called the sheriffs and police to remove them once again. The family was unlawfully evicted the first time and now they have been unlawfully evicted again. This despite ANC Premier Ebrahim Rasool’s promise that the people of the Western Cape would be having the “best five years of their lives”.
The community is up in arms that the private security guards have been hired from the nearby impoverished community of Ilitha Park, and are planning to meet with residents of Ilitha Park later today to persuade them not to take up jobs as evictors.
The family is suffering badly since they are made up of several adults (one of whom worked night shift last night and is currently sleeping outside on the pavement), a sick grandmother and a one month old baby.
Meanwhile, a charge of pointing a firearm against Mandela Park anti-eviction campaigner Max Ntanyana was withdrawn by the state in the Khayelitsha Magistrates Court this morning. Although the state has laid over 77 charges against the Anti-Eviction Campaign, these are frivolous charges which have always been withdrawn or dismissed by the courts.
For more information please call Nobasika on 073 560 3430
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