Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape will be approaching the Cape High Court first thing this morning to secure an urgent interdict against unlawful and criminal evictions by the City of Cape Town in the case of Macassar Village.Macassar Village backyarders have been made homeless by the extremely high rents that they are charged to erect shacks in other people’s backyards. For the past week, homeless residents have been occupying an empty piece of land owned by the City of Cape Town with the intention of housing them and their families.

Land is the building block of any healthy and sustainable community. We are merely fighting for our own livelihoods which have been denied to us by past governments and this current government.

For more information, contact Mzonke at 0732562036

Archive of Macassar press releases and photos:

• 23 May, 2009 – Photos of community occupation of empty land

• 23 May, 2009 – Update from the Macassar Village Occupation

• 22 May, 2009 – Photos on current Situation at Macassar

• 21 May, 2009 – Bankruptcy of responses to Macassar land occupation underlines Western Cape housing crisis by Martin Legassick

• 21 May, 2009 – The Macassar Village land occupation continues…

• 21 May, 2009 – The City Reversed the Decision by the Ward Counsellor at Macassar Village

• 20 May, 2009 – Macassar people won their victory on land occupation

• 19 May, 2009 – Siyanda. Mpola. Macassar Village – The war on the poor continues

• 18 May, 2009 – AbM Western Cape: Macassar residents occupying empty land as we speak

• 14 May, 2009 – AbM-WC Press release – tomorrow raining or not we continue with our protest

• 13 May, 2009 – Second day of the cleaning campaign: The 14th May 2009

• 12 May, 2009 – Abahlali Protest for the 13th of May at 10:00 am at Macassar Village

• Photos: Picture of Cleaning up campaign on ABM WC at Macassar Village