Thursday 24th April 2008 at 8am
CAPE TOWN – At 1pm today, hundreds of members of the Gugulethu and surrounding areas Anti-Eviction Campaign will occupy the offices of the MEC for Housing and Local Government, Richard Dyantyi.
Dyantyi and Premier Ebrahim Rasool have been playing hide and seek with the community, despite our frequent written requests to them for a meeting. There is a high rate of evictions of pensioners in Gugulethu and we also want to talk to them about other issues.
First, Dyantyi’s office said they had received our letters and would get back to us. Now they say they never received any letter from us, despite us having the fax receipts as proof.
We are sick and tired of government officials who do not want to meet with the people. Mayor of Cape Town Helen Zille did come to meet us although she also told us a lot of nonsense about how we should not put evicted pensioners back in their houses, because by so doing, we were deterring “investors” from investing in Gugulethu.
We demand that all those responsible for housing have proper meetings with us where they commit to solving the problems they have created for us.
For comment please call Mnce on 078 5808646
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