AEC’s Ashraf Cassiem on the World Cup
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Tags: 2010 World Cup, Anti-Eviction Campaign, blikkiesdorp, FIFA, Poor People's World Cup
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Amnesty International statement on AbM attacks
18 12 2009South Africa: Failure to conduct impartial investigation into Kennedy Road violence is leading to further human rights abuses
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC DOCUMENT AI Index: AFR 53/011/2009
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Amnesty International deplores the continuing failure of the South African authorities to investigate impartially and fully human rights abuses which occurred during and after armed violence at the Kennedy Road Informal Settlement (Kennedy Road) in Durban last September. This despite repeated calls since October for an independent and impartial commission of inquiry into the surrounding circumstances and extent of the violence and its aftermath. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Amnesty International, impartial investigation, Kennedy Road, South African Human Rights Commission
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Statement by Bishop Rubin Phillip on the Kennedy Road attacks
29 09 2009Democracy Under Attack in Kennedy Road
I was torn with anguish when I first heard of the unspeakable brutality that has raged down on to the Kennedy Road shack settlement. In recent years I have spent many hours in the Kennedy Road settlement. I’ve attended meetings, memorials, mass ecumenical prayers and marches. I have had the honour of meeting some truly remarkable people in the settlement and the work of Abahlali baseMjondolo has always nurtured my faith in the power and dignity of ordinary people. I have seen the best of our democracy here. I have tasted the joy of real social hope here.
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Tags: African National Congress, anc, Bishop RUbin Phillip, democracy, Kennedy Road
Categories : Archives, From NGOs, Open Letters, Poor People's Alliance, Solidarity
COHRE releases scathing report on the N2 Gateway
11 09 2009COHRE, the UN affiliated human rights NGO based in Switzerland, has just released a scathing report on the N2 Gateway project. Click here to download the report. See the Press Release by COHRE below.
For comment on how the N2 Gateway has effected the lives of poor people in Cape Town, contact:
Ashraf Cassiem at 076 186 1408 (Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign) Kareemah Linneveldt 078 492 0943 (Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign) Evelyn Mokoena at 0763317624 (Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign) Mzwanele Zulu (Joe Slovo Task Team) Luthando Ndabamba (Joe Slov N2 Gateway Phase 1 Flats)–
COHRE RELEASES N2 GATEWAY PROJECT REPORT
FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2009
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) today released a report on housing rights violations in the context of the N2 Gateway development project in South Africa. The report is based on research conducted by COHRE during a fact finding mission to South Africa in 2008 and its amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) submission to the South African Constitutional Court in the recently decided “Joe Slovo” case (Residents of Joe Slovo Community, Western Cape v Thubelisha Homes & Others, CCT 22/08[2009] ZACC 16). The report –N2 Gateway Project: Housing Rights Violations as ‘Development’ in South Africa — is available at http://www.cohre.org
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Tags: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, COHRE, Constitutional Court, N2 Gateway, N2 Gateway Housing Project, Switzerland, United Nations
Categories : Archives, Delft - evictions + resistance, From NGOs, Joe Slovo
Blackwash will be joining the PPA tomorrow in the Soweto march….
16 06 2009Dear young black person,
Black youth living in South Africa today is in deep trouble. Even though we were promised a better life after 1994 by our black government, many of us still live in squatter camps and small RDP houses because white people still own more than 80% of South African land which has been stolen over the last 300 years. As young black people we have to ask ourselves what is stopping our government from improving our lives and is there a future for us if black people do not have land. Will black people not be trapped in squatter camps and townships forever if our government refuses to take our land back from whites? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: 1976 Soweto Uprisings, Blackwash, June 16th, protest, Steve Biko
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A case study – N2 Gateway Housing Project
7 06 2009The N2 Gateway Housing Project is an initiative which was started in March 2005 by the three tiers of government – the national Department of Housing, the Western Cape Provincial Government, and the City of Cape Town. All three tiers were, at the time, led by the African National Congress government. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: joe slovo, N2 Gateway, Nthamaga Kgafela, SAIRR, South African Institute of Race Relations
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