Comments on: Housing and Evictions at the N2 Gateway Project in Delft

By: Symphony Way is not dead. We are still Symphony Way. We will always be Symphony Way. « Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:43:59 +0000

[...] The only reason we have moved to Blikkiesdorp is because our children are traumatised by the first eviction in February 2008 in which police opened fire and shot over 20 of us including women and children. We do not want our [...]

By: Cape Town: Police attack the Symphony Road Occupation « The Struggle for the City

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:25:09 +0000

[...] Delft-Symphony — Last night at 22h00, three police vans pulled up to Symphony Way dressed in riot gear. Without warning, they began pepper spraying people in the settlement and attempted to arrest a 58 year old resident named Auntie Tilla. When it was all over, the road’s pastor had been assaulted, beaten and abducted and five residents had been pepper sprayed multiple times. An American journalist had also been sprayed merely for taking photographs of police officers. The Anti-Eviction Campaign believes this intimidation and violence is uncalled for and condemns such cowardly actions by police. As of today, residents and the American journalist have laid charges of assault against Superintendent Van Wyk and the police under his command. Pavement Dwellers call on police to work with them to protect them from speeding drunk drivers rather than against them. [...]

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