The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
Primera parte de un crimen atroz (1st chapter of another atrocity case)
Otra vez Siyanda, Uyishayile
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Videos about Abahlali baseMjondolo
28 05 2009
S’bu is calling.
The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
The third force is the suffering of the poor. El poder es nuestro. May 25, 2009
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Tags: demolitions, eThekwini, KZN, Mashumi Figlan, Mazwi Nzimande, Mpume, S'bu Zikode, shacks, Siyanda
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Media: Constitutional challenge to law on slums
4 05 2009
4 May, 2009
Source: Business Day
Source: Business Day
KwaZulu-Natal shack dwellers take case to highest court, writes Ernest Mabuza
A GROUP of KwaZuluNatal shack dwellers is challenging the constitutionality of the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination of and Prevention of Re Emergence of Slums Act, intended to eliminate the province’s slums, stop sprawls re-emerging and to upgrade and control existing slums. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Abahlali baseMjondolo, Constitutional Court, Ernest Mabuza, KZN, PIE Act, Slums Act, Vuka Tshabalala
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Media: Purgatory for the poor
31 03 2009Source: Mail & Guardian
‘The other day, my [nine-year-old] daughter and her friend were coming back from school through the bushes and a man tried to rape them,’ says Neftal Ntuli (40)
“Luckily a car was going past and the driver brought them home. In broad daylight! It’s not safe there.”
Ntuli, his wife and three children form part of the first batch of families relocated by the eThekwini municipality from their informal shack settlement near Umlazi’s King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium to a transit camp in peri-urban T-section. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: 2010 World Cup, KZN, transit camps
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Media: Clarity sought on R20bn tourist project
24 03 2009
24 March 2009, 06:42
Source: Daily News
Ruwaad Holdings, the financier of a R20-billion tourist development at Macambini on the North Coast, is concerned that general agreement for the project has not been signed even though a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last year with the KwaZulu-Natal government will expire within weeks.
Ruwaad on Monday met an ANC task team led by Cyril Xaba, a member of the provincial legislature, to steer the AmaZulu World project forward amid concerns that commencement had been delayed.
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Tags: AmaZulu World, Cyril Xaba, Dubai, eMacambini, KZN, Memorandum of Understanding, Ruwaad Holdings
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Rietvlei Community Protest March Against Violations of Land and Human Rights of the Masikane Family by Local Farmer and Police
23 03 2009
Rural Network Press Release
21 March 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo & the Rural Network at the Reitvlei Protest – 21 March 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo & the Rural Network at the Reitvlei Protest – 21 March 2009
On March 21, 2009 the Human Rights Day, we the community of Rietvlei (black and white) and the Masikane family will march on our streets to protest against the:
1. Eviction of the Masikane family by a local farmer
2. Flagrant biasness of the Rietvlei Police Station against the Masikane family
3. Denial of justice by the Greytown Magistrate Court
4. Failure by the Department of Land Affairs to provide tenure security to the Maiskane family
The Masikane family has been living on Bright Water Farm for four generations. They lived in peace and harmony with all previous land owners until the de Gasperyz family bought the farm. The problems started about six years ago when Mr. Collin de Gasperyz started to embark on a campaign to evict the Masikane family who had been on living on that land for four generations. When the family resisted on the grounds that they belong to that land Mr. de Gasperyz started a campaign of constructive eviction which escalated to violence (for more information please see attached KZN Land Legal Cluster’s document). Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: farm, KZN, Rural Network, rural struggles
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Solidarity: The Slums Act Judgment in the Durban Hight Court Today
27 01 2009
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO MOVEMENT
MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Durban High Court, 27 January 2009
Case no. 1874/08 Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA.
Abahlali baseMjondolo have been to the Durban High Court this morning to hear the judgment being handed dawn by the KwaZulu-Natal President, Judge Vuka Shabalala. On the 6 November 2008 the Movement had applied to the Durban High Court for the KwaZulu- Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-Emergence of Slums Act 2007 to be declared unconstitutional. Full details of the Act, and the reasons for our opposition to it, and can be found on the Movement’s website at http://abahlali.org/node/1629/
The Judge President had decided that the judgment would be handed down today at 9:30 am; however the judge did not come himself and sent another judge to give his judgment. Read the rest of this entry »
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