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 »
Some of the land invaders prepare their makeshift tents. Photo; Neil Baynes
A woman raises her hands in peaceful protest as police disperse over 4 000 backyard dwellers who occupied city-owned land in Mitchell’s Plain last weekend. Photo: Neil Baynes/WCN
City law enforcement officers, protecting themselves with body shields and face masks, advance on a group of Mitchells Plain residents who invaded an empty plot in Tafelsig. Picture: Henk Kruger
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