Angry backyard dwellers in Khayelitsha’s Mandela Park – who burnt tyres in the streets of their neighbourhood – have given the provincial housing department a week to address their concerns or they will illegally occupy empty housing units in the area.
The residents, who protested there on Monday as police and private security guards kept a close watch, say they are at their wits’ end and want action now. Read the rest of this entry »
11 August 2009 – Sowetan
BOLEKAJA! – Andile Mngxitama
MINISTER of human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale spent one night with the Diepsloot poor – then he wrote a blow-by-blow account for the newspapers.
Apparently he is now armed with the views and concerns of that communities’ poor and will be handing in a report to the cabinet.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this comical political posturing. Read the rest of this entry »
SEVERAL Woodstock families are seeking legal help after rental increases of up to 100 percent resulted in evictions.
Community leader Tahir Levy said more than 15 families had already left their homes after receiving letters from their landlords because they could not afford the increases.
Some families had been forced to move to the Blikkies Dorp informal settlement in Delft. Read the rest of this entry »
THE Human Settlements Department has slammed those profiteering illegally from subsidised houses in Cape Town townships.
Spokesman Zalisile Mbali yesterday said the department was aware of the illegal selling and renting of RDP houses in Du Noon, Delft and Khayelitsha. Read the rest of this entry »
Nathan Adams | Eyewitness News
Residents of the Los Angeles informal settlement near Mfuleni in Cape Town, have staged a service delivery protest, demanding basic services like water and electricity.
The protest forced police to block off the Old Faure Road. Read the rest of this entry »
2009-08-10 14:15:33 – Cape Argus and Voice of the Cape
The Athlone Anti-Eviction Campaign has been going door-to-door in Kewtown gathering support for a petition against what it claims is the City’s lack of proper planning for the area. The campaign said yesterday it was attempting to ensure that the voices of residents of the area were heard.
But the City has hit back, saying that a consultation process is still under way and that community liaison officers and steering committees have been appointed. Grace Blouw, the city’s manager for existing housing, said a dedicated, substantial communication campaign was being run as part of the city’s planning efforts in the area.
The anti-eviction campaign said the petition would be used as a platform from which to launch a campaign that would include a list of demands being formally submitted to the city authorities, challenging the planned renovation of the area. Although upgrades were in the pipeline, an angry community claimed it had been excluded from the process. And it wanted to see work in the area given to unemployed people who lived there, rather than to outside contractors. Read the rest of this entry »
By Davison Makanga – IPS News
CAPE TOWN, Aug 10 (IPS) – In 1956, twenty thousand women marched to parliament to protest discriminatory pass laws. The march, commemorated as Women’s Day in South Africa on Aug. 9 each year, has become iconic of women’s quest for equality.
A democratic constitution has replaced apartheid laws, but the reality on the ground suggests freedom and equality for all has not yet been attained.
Fifteen years after apartheid was replaced by non-racial democracy, South African farm workers say they still face discrimination. The final week of July saw a coordinated series of protests by farm workers in the Western Cape against poor working conditions, retrenchments and evictions. Read the rest of this entry »
Video of Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Poor People’s Alliance protest against the KZN Slums Act at the Constitutional Court.
Click here for the video: http://vimeo.com/5971780
Txaboletan bizi direnak from elkartasunbideak on Vimeo.
Qina!
Emergency Press Release
Abahlali are singing and protesting against the bulldozer and the police with courage and commitment. The bulldozer had to reverse. It is about to leave. The Durban comrades have have just phoned Delani Madondo from Umngeni Municipality, who says he is in church and will be working on Tuesday. He says that he does not know anything about the eviction that was happening now.
When things are calmer Roni Khanyile will give full details to the media that are now present there. Read the rest of this entry »
Note: As usual, the media ignores the actual people of Joe Slovo. No one bothers to ask what they really think about the billionaire turned politician.
Joe Slovo residents ‘must be given time’
August 07, 2009 Edition 1 – Cape ArgusHUMAN Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has promised the residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement a reprieve, saying they will not be immediately removed from the area to Delft.
Sexwale, who visited a number of the city’s informal settlements yesterday, told a meeting of about 500 people in Joe Slovo that despite the Constitutional Court ruling in favour of the housing department to remove the residents to Delft so that the next phase of the N2 Gateway project could start, he will have the implementation of that judgment postponed. Read the rest of this entry »
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