While we are poor, we are not stupid. While we are poor, we can still think. These houses were built for us, for our elderly who waited 23 years for a house; but now have to sit on the side of the road. These houses have not been built for other people and whoever comes to live in these houses will have nightmares.
Click here for all AEC Press Statements about the Delft eviction
Photographs of the Delft evictions:
Videos of the Delft evictions:
- Police brutality caught on tape - 19 Feb, 2008
- A Delft resident who was shot by police (Afrikaans) - 19 Feb, 2008
- Video of Delft shootings on eTV
Publications by the AEC and affiliates:
- Western Cape Housing Crisis: Writings on Joe Slovo and Delft - by Martin Legassick
- Pavement children speak from the heart and urge compassion from Lindiwe Sisulu
- Delft-Symphony Pavement Dwellers building a new world - one child at a time by The Delft-Symphony Anti-Eviction Campaign
- Housing and Evictions at the N2 Gateway Project in Delft - by Kerry Chance
Below are articles from various news sources. Please note that most of these articles are inaccurate and/or biased. For instance, residents never threw rocks at police prior to them opening fire on Delft families.
Reuters:
- S. Africa police open fire at crowd in eviction dispute
- SA police fire at crowd in eviction dispute (note: AEC, residents and media can affirm that no rocks were thrown at police prior to them opening fire)
The Mercury:
Mail and Guardian:
- Delft Evictions Under Way
- Squatters, cops clash during Delft evictions
- Delft squatters spend the night under the stars
- Delft homeless appeal for food and water
- Pavement politics (note: AEC doesn’t support the politicising of housing policy by the DA and ANC)
- Evicted squatters live on hope alone (note: everyone present can affirm the police shot before a single rock was thrown)
- Eviction battle fuels election race (note: AEC community never ever refused food from the city. The community only refused tents claiming its the government’s job to provide houses rather than tents)
- Price hikes, steel shortage delay Delft move
24 News:
- ‘Its my house or my grave’
- Court turns down Delft appeal
- I am not going to move
- Delft residents stranded
- Delft squatters ’still unhappy’
- Outcry as Delft tents torn down
IOL:
- Police cordon of Delft area
- Delft residents lose eviction appeal
- Children caught in crossfire, say residents (note: crossfire implies shooting from both sides. However, it was only the police shooting since none of the residents had guns)
- Police open fire in Delft
- Delft refuse, resist eviction
- SAHRC to probe rights abuse in Delft eviction
- Delft people in need of food, water
- Tensions run high as Rasool threatens to sue (The city has prevented food aid from coming in; not the other way around)
- Delft evictees told to register for subsidies
SABC:
The Times:
Cape Times:
AllAfrica.com
Sowetan:
Other links:
Stumble It!
[...] Stockpile: Delft evictions [...]
[...] Delft evictions [...]
[...] offered others a bit of perspective on the incident: “Why are they making us live like this when there are empty houses right here [across the road]. They think we are animals, but we are not animals. We know our [...]