Mitchell’s Plain Backyarders Association return to Cape High Court today

30 08 2011
 Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
30 August 2011

The poor communities and social movements in Cape Town are in solidarity with the poor landless people of Mitchell’s Plain who are being victimised by the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Province.

The Democratic Alliance-led government has blood on its hands. The people of Hangberg and Imizamo Yetho were attacked by the government not a long time ago. Recently, the Mitchell’s Plain Backyarders have also born the brunt of DA-led state violence against the poor.

The rich and wealthy people who are mostly whites enjoy themselves in the most unequal city in the world at the expense of the poor. This is why we rebel.

The issue of the Mitchell’s Plain landless, like the rest of Cape Town’s housing crisis, cannot be solved through state violence. It must be solved politically. Read the rest of this entry »





Review of No Land! No House! No Vote! for Amandla Magazine

8 08 2011
Amandla Magazine, South Africa – Jun 1, 2011
by Martin Legassick

On 19 December 2007, encouraged by their Democratic Alliance (DA) councilor, backyarders in Delft illegally occupied unfinished houses in the N2 Gateway scheme. After battling in court, they were evicted on 19 February 2008. Many of them decided to remain across the road from the N2 Gateway houses, and built shacks along the pavement of Symphony Way. After a further 20 months of contestation these people were evicted again, to the nearby Blikkiesdorp Temporary Relocation Area (TRA).

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Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape Rejects DA Hypocrisy and Stands Firm for Press Freedom

18 02 2011

ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO MOVEMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA (WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE)
Website: khayelitshastruggles.com or www.abahlali.org
Email: abmwesterncape@abahlali.org office admin: 073 2562 036/ 083 446 5081

As a movement we have become used to the blatant hypocrisy of the DA over the years.

The DA says that it wants to crack down on crime and support the rule of law but then it engages in unlawful and criminal evictions, as in Macassar Village in 2009. In South African law any eviction without a court order is an unlawful and criminal act and yet the DA began to demolish shacks without a court order on 21 May 2009. We went to court to secure an urgent interdict to stop the DA from engaging in these criminal attacks on the poor and we won that interdict and yet you then went ahead and demolished shacks in violation of that court order. The criminality of your municipal government here in Cape Town was condemned by local church leaders and international human rights organisations. Read the rest of this entry »





MEC under siege over ‘false promise’

23 09 2009

23 September 2009
Anna Majavu – The Sowetan

Tenants await ‘their’ houses

Bonginkosi Madikizela

Bonginkosi Madikizela

NEW Western Cape housing MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela is on a collision course with backyard residents from Mandela Park in Khayelitsha.

The tenants have accused him of breaking a promise to give them houses in a new development.

But Madikizela has counter-accused residents of causing a R1million worth of damage to houses during a weekend protest.

About 23 people were arrested during the weekend protest and freed on Monday after the state withdrew its case and the residents’ attorney, Sharfudin Parker, laid charges against the police for unlawful arrest. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: City compares Blikkiesdorp to informal settlements

5 05 2009

AEC Note: When the City starts comparing what they build formally to the city’s informal settlements, its obvious that what they are building do not live up to acceptable alternative accomodation.  Anyone who goes to Blikkiesdorp will realise that it is a government built slum and that would beg one to as why the government is building slums in the first place?

Blikkiesdorp is city’s safest informal settlement, says council housing boss
May 04, 2009 Edition 1
Staff Reporter

THE City of Cape Town has come out in defence of its controversial Blikkiesdorp temporary relocation area in Delft, which it says is one of the safest of all the 222 informal settlements in Cape Town when it comes to floods and fires. But the Anti-Eviction Campaign is having none of it. Read the rest of this entry »








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