June 09, 2009 Edition 1
Source: Cape Argus
Maybe there is someone out there who will listen to what I have to say.
After many efforts to raise the alarm about how we ordinary, poor South Africans feel after being ignored, except when an election is around the corner, perhaps someone will pay attention to our plight. Read the rest of this entry »
Click here to read the judgement in .doc and here to read it in .pdf.
11 June 2009 – The Sowetan
Anna Majavu – majavua@sowetan.co.za
Residents to get new area
One of Cape Town’s largest informal settlements – Joe Slovo, Langa – is set to be entirely demolished after the Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that its 20000 residents be moved out. Read the rest of this entry »
Caitlin Ross – West Cape News
11 June 2009
Jubilant residents of Symphony Way in Delft sang and danced outside the Western Cape High Court yesterday (09/06/2009) in celebration of their successful application for a postponement of the hearing that will decide whether or not they will be evicted from their current home.
The residents, numbering about 100 and supported at the court by Anti-Eviction Campaign activists, were evicted from RDP houses in Delft on 17 February 2008, after a chaotic mix-up over whom the correct beneficiaries were. Read the rest of this entry »
Event: Gympie Street residents of Woodstock will be in court for the hearing of their urgent application against their recent eviction
Time: Thursday 11 June at 10h00
Where: Cape High Court
Contact: Willy at 0731443619
Event: Stop Xenophobia! Gugulethu AEC to host local Somalian Traders and the Somalian Association of South Africa (Police will be present to ensure safety of participants).
When: Thursday 11 June at 15h00
Where: Gugulethu Luyolo Centre
Contact: Mncedisi at 0785808646
Event: Newfields Village at 8 other communities in Bellville Magistrates Court to continue to testify in the prosecution of their former attorney Botman who stole over 2-million Rand from them.
When: 9th-11th of June in the morning
Where: Belliville Magistrates Court
Contact: Gary at 072 392 5859
Other things:
Click here to read the judgement in .doc and here to read it in .pdf.
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Pierre De Vos Source: Constitutionally SpeakingThe Constitutional Court today granted an order for the eviction of Joe Slovo residents to far off Delft to facilitate the building of houses as part of the N2 Gateway Project. The fact that the court ordered the removal of people from their homes where they have lived for the past 15 years, will rightly be harshly criticised. It has failed to display the kind of “grace and compassion” one would expect of the self-styled champion of the vulnerable and dispossessed. Read the rest of this entry »
| Source: SABC News | June 10 2009 , 11:30:00 |
The Constitutional Court has ordered the developers of the N2 Gateway project outside Cape Town to allocate 70% of the development at the Joe Slovo informal settlement to current residents. It’s also ordered that they be provided with temporary accommodation that must be electrified and serviced.
The residents had appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn an eviction order granted by the Cape High Court. Thubelisha Homes, the national government’s housing agency, had wanted to move them 15 kilometres to Delft, to make room for formal housing. Joe Slovo is one of Cape Town’s biggest informal settlements, containing about 4 500 crowded shacks and nearly 20 000 residents. Read the rest of this entry »
The Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that about 20 000 residents in the Joe Slovo informal settlement on the Cape Flats must be evicted. Read the rest of this entry »
9 June 2009
The Honourable Mr. Dan Plato Mayor of Cape Town, The Mayor’s Office, City of Cape Town Cape Town 8001 South AfricaReference: Violation of housing rights of 60 families in Macassar Village, Cape Town.
Dear Mayor Plato,
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) is an international human rights non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with offices throughout the world. COHRE has consultative status with the United Nations and Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. COHRE works to promote and protect the right to adequate housing for everyone, everywhere, including preventing or remedying forced evictions.
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June 09, 2009 Edition 1 Lavern de Vries Source: Cape ArgusNote: For more information on this case, contact Gary Hartzenberg at 072 3925859
Photo: INLSA
THE TRIAL of a former attorney charged with defrauding hundreds of Cape Flats families of millions was due to get under way today, five years after he allegedly fled the country.
Carl John Botman appeared in the Bellville Commercial Crimes Court yesterday and was reprimanded by magistrate Amrith Shabilall for delaying the trial. Read the rest of this entry »
SUSAN NJANJI | NAIROBI, KENYA – Jun 10 2009 09:47
Source: M&G
The 19-year-old leans against a rusty metal wall at his school in a Nairobi slum, pondering the government’s plan to tear down the building as part of a new round of forced evictions.
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