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Media: Cops, backyard dwellers clash in Macassar

20 05 2009

20 May 2009, 09:04

A police officer and a young boy were among several people injured during Tuesday’s violent confrontation between police and Macassar Village backyard dwellers who invaded land adjacent to the N2.

During the incident, four men – including prominent academic Martin Legassick – were taken into custody.

When police bundled Legassick, who the people called their “comrade”, into the back of a police van, the backyard dwellers hurled stones at them, and police opened fire with rubber bullets. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: Aziz Hartley, land occupation, Macassar Village, Martin Legassick, N2
Categories : Macassar, Mainstream and Other News

Media: Eleven held over building shacks

18 05 2009

2009/05/18

Source: Dispatch

ELEVEN people were arrested for trespassing when they tried to build shacks on municipal land in Motherwell, Johannesburg.

Police said the five woman and six men were building “illegal houses” on Saturday afternoon when they are arrested. They were currently in police cells.

Landless People’s Movement national organiser Mangaliso Kubheka said incidents like these showed “people are still landless after the new dispensation. They would not go and occupy municipal land if they had land”. — Sapa

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Tags: land occupation, Landless People's Movement, Mangaliso Kubheka, Motherwell
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News, Poor People's Alliance

Media: Backyard dwellers take over land

15 05 2009

By Francis Hweshe and Molly Raisch

Source: Cape Argus

About a thousand disgruntled backyard dwellers in Macassar Village, in the Strand, are set to butt heads with the City of Cape Town after they decided to illegally clear and occupy a piece of land on the margins of the N2.

The city has threatened to seek a court interdict against them if they do not halt the operation.

The backyard dwellers, part of housing lobby group, Abahlali baseMjondolo, said their patience with the government on housing delivery had “run dry”.

They also said that they were “tired of paying rent”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: City of Cape Town, Land Invasions Unit, land occupation, Macassar Village
Categories : Archives, Macassar, Mainstream and Other News

AbM-WC: Second day of the cleaning campaign: The 14th May 2009

13 05 2009

Abahlali tomorrow on the 14^th of May will continue with its cleaning campaign on the land that we have identified by ourselves for our activities, and our cleaning campaign will continue till Friday.

Place: Macassar Village

Time: From 10:00 am till late

Macassar cleanup of empty land

Direction: use N2 towards Somerset West and park at the first Engine garage after passing Barden Powell turn off, and cross the N2 towards shell and after shell garage you’ll see us or call 073 775 5132 or 083 248 165 8 to be picked up at Shell garage.

While Abahlali baseMjondolo DBN tomorrow will be contesting the slums act in the constitutional court at Johannesburg (for more info about the slums act case visit www.abahlali.org), Abahali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape will be contesting it on the ground.

Abahlali Western Cape supports the ABM DBN in the struggle against KZN Government; while we note that the language that is being used in the court is not the language of the poor and is not the language that is understandable to us. Read the rest of this entry »