Blikkiesdorp residents long for dignity

22 03 2011

Giovanna Gerbi | EWN

Some residents of the temporary relocation area Blikkiesdorp in Cape Town on Tuesday said their human rights are in tatters because their living conditions are appalling.

Eyewitness News visited the tin shanty town outside Delft while the country commemorated Human Rights Day on Monday.

The first residents moved to the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area – later dubbed ’Blikkiesdorp’ – in 2008. It was supposed to a short-term housing solution.
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Solidarity: Abahlali to march tomorrow with or without eThekwini’s permission

21 03 2010

Our right to protest is not negotiable!

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
21 March 2010

We Will Meet Sutcliffe in Court at 13:00 today

Abahlali baseMjondolo has launched an urgent application in the Durban High Court to have the Durban City Manager Michael Sutcliffe interdicted against denying us the right to march through our own city to present our demands to our own City Hall.

It is a very sad fact that we have to spend Human Rights Day asking the courts to protect our basic rights from a repressive government. The historic protest in Sharpeville that is being commemorated across the country today was against the pass laws – laws that sought to keep African people out of the cities.Today we are going to court against Sutcliffe to stop him from denying us our right to access our city. Read the rest of this entry »








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