Cape Flats families given a reprieve from eviction, writes Glynnis Underhill
Ashraf Cassiem and 139 families who have set up home under the stars along Symphony Way in wind-swept Delft on the Cape Flats cele-brated a small victory last week after being given a reprieve in their fight against eviction.
“We’ll gladly move to houses that are safe, clean and adequate to our families’ needs,” said Cassiem, chairperson of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
TENSIONS in Gugulethu are rising after the Gugulethu Business Forum issued letters to Somali-owned shops on Saturday, warning them to leave the township within seven days.
Somali traders went to Gugulethu police station en- masse on Saturday night to open a case of intimidation against the Gugulethu Business Forum. Read the rest of this entry »
Gugulethu traders have delivered warning letters to Somali shopkeepers telling them they have seven days to leave the area. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday, 14 June 2009
We are concerned about recent statements made by Inkosi Kayelihle Wiseman Mathaba in the media. He was quoted as saying that he is now supporting the project by Ruwaad Holdings in Dubai to build the ‘AmaZulu World’ themepark that will result in the forced removal of 10 000 families from their ancestral land.
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June 10, 2009 Edition 1
The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission paid a pastoral visit to the people of Macassar in Nkanini and has these comments:
The ink from the recent national and provincial elections has not yet dried and peeled off our left thumbs and already the poor of our province, with their children as small as one month old, have been left to fend for themselves in wintry conditions. Read the rest of this entry »
By Natasha Prince – Cape Argus
11 June 2009
There is no quick fix for the desperately poor housing conditions in overpopulated Masiphumelele, despite sporadic protests by evicted backyard dwellers demanding land. Read the rest of this entry »
Poor Peoples’ Alliance to Re-enact June 1976 Soweto Uprising March
The Poor Peoples’ Alliance (PPA), made up of radical community-based organisations across South Africa, is to march from Morris Isaacs High School to the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto on the 16th June 2009 to re-enact the 1976 march.
CHATA (Concerned Hawkers and Traders Association) had a meeting with its members on 10 June 2009, regarding the allocation process of trading bays in Mitchells Plain Town Centre. The allocation process was completely unfair and exclusive although the city claimed they would make it transparent and would consult with the traders regarding all issues of the process.
Councillor Dennis Williams explained in a meeting on 9 June 2009 that the process has been stopped. CHATA needs clarification as to why the process has stopped and for how long. Mr. Williams was the very same councillor who agreed that the hawkers must move to the new market, despite mention that the process was exclusive of about 500 traders.
CHATA has grown from 150 members to 500 members and has formed alliances with other groups in the Town Centre.
Traders are fed up with the City not listening to them. CHATA will continue to fight for the fundamental rights of the informal traders in and around the Western Cape.
Contact: Mischka 0731286657
The eyes of nearly a billion TV viewers are fixed on the vast Soccer City stadium. The winning team captain receives the trophy from a frail but radiant Nelson Mandela. The date is 11 July 2010 and, irrespective of what happened on the pitch, the true winners of the World Cup are the hosts.
This is the dream that South Africa hopes to realise a year from now. In staging the World Cup finals it will take on the biggest sporting showpiece on the planet. It has not enjoyed such a moment in the sun since the transition from apartheid to multiracial democracy in 1994. Read the rest of this entry »
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