Tension is mounting in Langa near Cape Town as informal settlers from Joe Slovo slowly fill up every available piece of open land in the more established areas. Read the rest of this entry »
Media: Joe Slovo residents defy move to Delft
22 06 2009
21 June 2009, 13:32
By Nwabisa Msutwana-Stemela
Source: Mercury
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Tags: Constitutional Court, delft, Dfiso Zulu, land occupation, langa, Thubelisha Homes
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
Opinion: Ruling brings relief to too few shack dwellers
18 06 2009June 16, 2009 Edition 1
Source: Cape Argus
Your editorial (“A mixed outcome”, June 11) claims the Constitutional Court’s decision on the eviction of the residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement to make way for N2 Gateway homes included the provision that “70 percent of the shack dwellers who were recorded as being resident there in 2000, and qualified for this housing, should be returned to the area once new homes have been built.”
This is incorrect. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Constitutional Court, Martin Legassick, N2 Gateway
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
Media: Small victory for homeless
15 06 2009
GLYNNIS UNDERHILL | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – Jun 15 2009 06:00
Source: Mail & Guardian
Cape Flats families given a reprieve from eviction, writes Glynnis Underhill
Ashraf Cassiem and 139 families who have set up home under the stars along Symphony Way in wind-swept Delft on the Cape Flats cele-brated a small victory last week after being given a reprieve in their fight against eviction.
“We’ll gladly move to houses that are safe, clean and adequate to our families’ needs,” said Cassiem, chairperson of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: blikkiesdorp, City of Cape Town, Constitutional Court, Itumeleng Kotsoane, Judge Jake Moloi, Mzwanele Zulu, Symphony Way
Categories : Archives, Delft - evictions + resistance, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
Academia: A (partial) victory for Joe Slovo residents
10 06 2009Click 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 »
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Tags: 2010 World Cup, Breaking New Ground, Constitutional Court, Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke, Hlophe, N2 Gateway
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, opinion / academic articles
Video and Photos of AbM, LPM and AEC at the Constitutional Court
17 05 2009Video: ‘From Shack to the Constitutional Court’
Photographs of the Poor People’s Alliance at the Concourt (click here for more):
The PPA marching to the Concourt
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Concourt, Constitutional Court, march, Slums Act
Categories : Archives, Photo, Poor People's Alliance, Video
Media: ‘Down with slums law’
15 05 200914 May 2009
Source: Sowetan
Song rang out at the Constitutional Court today, in demand of an end to KwaZulu-Natal’s Slums Act.
The crowd was chanting “phansi nge slums act no Sbu Ndebele” meaning down with the Slums Act and (former) KwaZulu-Natal premier Sbu Ndebele.
“We want houses, there are people from Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal and more people are still coming by bus,” said a protester who identified herself as Nolunde. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Constitutional Court, Jeremy Gauntlett, Sbu Ndebele, Slums Act, Vuka Shabalala
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Links to Articles on AbM’s opposition to the Slums Act
14 05 2009Abahlali baseMjondolo will be taking the struggle against the internationally notorious KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act to the Constitutional Court 14 May 2009. We will be travelling overnight from Durban and Cape Town (with our comrades from the Anti-Eviction Campaign) to arrive at the court tomorrow morning. Our comrades from the Landless People’s Movement in Johannesburg will join us at the court.
Below you can find a lot of information about this Act.
Further queries can be forwarded to:
Mnikelo Ndabankulu ABM-KZN 079 745 0653
Mbhekiseni Mavuso Rural Network KZN 072 279 2634
Mzonke Poni ABM Cape Town 073 256 2036
Ashraf Cassim AEC Cape Town 076 186 1408
Maureen Mnisi LPM-Gauteng 082 337 4514
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Recent Articles and press releases on AbM’s challenge to the Slums Act:
- Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Poor People’s Alliance Will Challenge the KZN Slums Act in the Constitutional Court on 14 May 2009 – A press release by Abahlali baseMjondolo (14 May 2009)
- Church Leaders: Oppose the Slums Act by KZN Christian Council
- Video: Abahlali challenges the slums act by War on Want
- Slums Act: Official Media Statement from the Constitutional Court by the Concourt
- Opinion: The KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act, Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated by SACSIS
- M&G: Shack dwellers to challenge slums Act in court by SAPA Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Concourt, Constitutional Court, Poor People's Alliance, Shack Dwellers, Slums Act
Categories : Archives, News & Press Release, Poor People's Alliance
Opinion: The KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act, Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated
14 05 2009Date posted: 13 May 2009
Source: SACSIS
On 14 May 2009 the Constitutional Court will hear the attempt by the shack dweller’s movement Abahlali baseMjondolo to have the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act declared unlawful. Other provinces have been mandated to develop similar legislation and the decision of the court may have a significant impact on the future of our cities. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: bloody legistlation, Breaking New Ground, Constitutional Court, Lindiwe Sisulu, Mbeki, Pinochet, Polokwane Resolutions, Richard Pithouse, SACSIS, Slums Act
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News, opinion / academic articles
Slums Act: Official Media Statement from the Constitutional Court
14 05 2009CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA v Premier KZN and Others
Case CCT 12/09 Date of hearing: 14 May 2009MEDIA SUMMARY
The following explanatory note is provided to assist the media in reporting this case and is not binding on the Constitutional Court or any member of the Court. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Constitution, Constitutional Court, National Housing Act, PIE Act, Slums Act
Categories : Archives, Poor People's Alliance
Church Leaders: Oppose the Slums Act
14 05 2009A statement from Church leadership in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo’s challenging the KZN Slums Act in the Constitutional Court on 14 May 2009.
As church leaders in South Africa we support the shackdweller movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, as it takes the struggle for the safety, dignity and equality of the poor to the Constitutional Court. We know that many people join Abahlali “because they do not want to be evicted from the cities where they already have some access to work, education, health care, libraries, sport facilities and so on. The struggle for the right to the city, for democratic cities for all, is therefore at the centre of [Abahlali's] struggle.”1 Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Bishop Paul Verryn, Bishop RUbin Phillip, Church Land Program, COHRE, Constitutional Court, Legal Resources Centre, LRC, SDI, Slum Dwellers International, Slums Act, South African Council of Churches
Categories : Archives, News & Press Release, Poor People's Alliance
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