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AbM Urgent Alert: Illegal Demolitions Threatened to Resume at Foreman Road at 7:00 on Tuesday Morning

15 09 2008

AEC NOTE: The Anti-Eviction Campaign expresses its solidarity against the attempted eviction on Foreman Rd. Outlaw evictions now!!!

Foreman Road residents have been informed that the bulldozers will return and resume their attempts to illegally bulldoze the shacks rebuilt after the fire at 7:00 tomorrow.

Abahlali baseMjondolo have asked our lawyers to seek an urgent interdict prohibiting the Municipality from carrying out unlawful demolitions. The community is also preparing to directly resist any attacks on their homes should this become neccessary. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, fire, illegal evictions
Categories : Archives, News & Press Release, Solidarity

AbM: bulldozer stopped in Foreman Road

15 09 2008

Published at 15h31 on Sept 15, 2008

The bulldozer [coming to destroy what is left of the settlement] has been stopped. The Legal Resources Centre is on the way. If any further attempt is made to knock down any of the fully or partially rebuilt shacks before this is resolved legally the entrance roads into the settlement will be barricaded. People will defend their right to their homes, to this land and to the city.
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, bulldozer, fire, illegal evictions
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AbM: City is attempting to turn Foreman Road into a transit camp – resident’s are resisting

15 09 2008

Published at 13h36 on Sept 15, 2008

The City has, as they always do these days, seized the opportunity of the disastrous Foreman Road fire, to send in the bulldozers and turn the Foreman Road settlement into one of their notorious transit camps. There has been no consultation at all and residents are, right now, organising to resist. Read the rest of this entry »