October 16, 2009 Edition 1 – Cape Times
ANEL LEWIS and MARY-ANNE GONTSANA
WITH hopes of finding an alternative to Blikkiesdorp dashed, members of the Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign will today meet with the City of Cape Town about the terms of the relocation of people living illegally on the pavement in Delft.
But the community has indicated that a relocation as soon as Monday will not be possible until several conditions are in place. Read the rest of this entry »
MEDIATION efforts between the City of Cape Town and the pavement dwellers in Symphony Way in Delft have begun, with little progress being made.
The Cape High Court ruled the residents would have to move from the pavement to the temporary relocation area of Blikkiesdorp, but left the two parties to negotiate timeframes, dates, and how many would be moved at a time. Read the rest of this entry »
Backs to wall in Blikkiesdorp (Note: Police are trying to enforce an illegal 9pm curfew in Blikkiesdorp)
October 13, 2009 Edition 1 MARY-ANNE GONTSANASOMALIS warned by people in Blikkiesdorp to move out or face the wrath of the community, remain adamant that they want to leave South Africa.
“There has been no physical violence, but (the Somalis) report that they are being threatened and harassed daily,” said Charlene May, the group’s legal representative from the Legal Resources Centre (LRC). Read the rest of this entry »
Chantall Presence | 20 October 2009 | Eyewitness News
The Anti-eviction Campaign has vowed it would not give up on its fight to prevent pavement dwellers from being relocated to Blikkiesdorp. Read the rest of this entry »
2009-10-19 14:28 – News 24
Cape Town – A Western Cape High Court judge on Monday granted an order for the eviction of 103 families who have been living in shacks on the pavement of Symphony Way, Delft, for the past 21 months.
The order allows authorities to shift the families in batches to corrugated iron structures in a nearby temporary relocation area nicknamed Blikkiesdorp. Read the rest of this entry »
Chantall Presence | 19 October 2009 | Eyewitness News
Delft Symphony Way dwellers may be forcibly removed soon.
The Western Cape High Court on Monday confirmed an earlier court order giving the city the right to relocate the families. Read the rest of this entry »
In a major legal victory for poor people’s rights to housing and shelter, the Constitutional Court this week struck down the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act. The court upheld shackdweller movement Abahlali base Mjondolo’s (ABM) application that the Act was unconstitutional.
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Thursday, 15 October 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
There have been five more arrests. The Kennedy Eight are now the Kennedy Thirteen.
None of the people that launched the attack on us in the Kennedy Road settlement have been arrested. Read the rest of this entry »
15 Oct 2009 – The Witness
Sharlene Packree
RESIDENTS of the Kennedy Road settlement in Durban were jubilant yesterday at the ruling of the Constitutional Court that a law that would have allowed mass evictions in KwaZulu-Natal is unconstitutional. Read the rest of this entry »
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