To MEC Whitey Jacobs: We will be heard!

2 11 2008
Gugulethu AEC Press Release
Sunday November 2, 2008

Gugulethu — Earlier today, MEC for Housing Whitey Jacobs finally showed up at our weekly mass meeting that is held in the Gugulethu Sports Complex.  In the packed room, people were finally able to speak directly to the person who has the ability to improve their lives.

The people are angry about being neglected and ignored.  But they spoke of their demands and their rights as citizens of this country.

We are building democracy here from the ground up.  We are forcing the government to listen to the words of the poor.  If power conceeds nothing with out a demand, then here are our demands:

No Land! No House! No Vote!

We will speak!

We will speak!

The people shall speak for themselves!

The people shall speak for themselves!

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AbM: ‘Be a visitor, not a spy’ – QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha

2 11 2008
Matt Birkinshaw, October 2008
Source: Khayelitsha Struggles

Introduction

For the first time in history more people in the world now live in cities than in rural areas. Globally one in five people live on land that does not legally belong to them. The UN predicts that this will rise to one in three by 2050. The future, to paraphrase Mike Davis, is not made of glass and steel, but of plastic, zinc and cardboard. Read the rest of this entry »








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