September 21, 2009 Edition 2
Natasha Prince – Cape Argus
A FAMILY that had been living in a subsidised house in Delft – a part of the N2 Gateway project – was horrified when it was visited by police officers who told it to leave on Wednesday evening.
The owner was one of several thousands who had received a subsidised house as part of the government’s contentious N2 Gateway housing Project two years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
The National Department of Housing has guaranteed Thubelisha Homes, a technically insolvent government housing agent, R241,5-million to help it close down “on a voluntary basis”, a confidential letter leaked to the Mail & Guardian reveals. Read the rest of this entry »
This evening the Delft police attempted to illegally evicting a family from their home in new N2 Gateway BNG government houses
The original owner received the house 2 years ago and, because she already had a place to stay, immediately handed it over to a family of 6 who have been the tenants of the house until now. The act by the owner proves that, since she had an alternative place to stay, the owner had no right to receive the free government house in the first place.
However now, over 2 years later, the owner has returned and is demanding the eviction of the tenants who have nowhere else to go except the human dumping ground of Blikkiesdorp. Read the rest of this entry »
See 3 articles published below:
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Auditor-general praises stance taken on N2 defects September 11, 2009 Edition 1THE strong stance taken against housing officials accused of having misled Parliament about repair work at the N2 Gateway by the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) has been praised by the auditor-general. Read the rest of this entry »
COHRE, the UN affiliated human rights NGO based in Switzerland, has just released a scathing report on the N2 Gateway project. Click here to download the report. See the Press Release by COHRE below.
For comment on how the N2 Gateway has effected the lives of poor people in Cape Town, contact:
Ashraf Cassiem at 076 186 1408 (Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign) Kareemah Linneveldt 078 492 0943 (Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign) Evelyn Mokoena at 0763317624 (Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign) Mzwanele Zulu (Joe Slovo Task Team) Luthando Ndabamba (Joe Slov N2 Gateway Phase 1 Flats)–
COHRE RELEASES N2 GATEWAY PROJECT REPORT
FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2009
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) today released a report on housing rights violations in the context of the N2 Gateway development project in South Africa. The report is based on research conducted by COHRE during a fact finding mission to South Africa in 2008 and its amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) submission to the South African Constitutional Court in the recently decided “Joe Slovo” case (Residents of Joe Slovo Community, Western Cape v Thubelisha Homes & Others, CCT 22/08[2009] ZACC 16). The report –N2 Gateway Project: Housing Rights Violations as ‘Development’ in South Africa — is available at http://www.cohre.org
*** CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CORHE REPORT ***
September 03 2009 , 11:33:00 – SABC News
The City of Cape Town’s application to evict a group of pavement dwellers in Delft has been postponed to October 7. The application was supposed to be heard in the Western Cape High Court this morning, but the group failed to file answering papers in time. Read the rest of this entry »
Eyewitness News | 2009/08/25 08:33:40 AM
The Western Cape Housing MEC has admitted some flats in the N2 Gateway development are so badly built they should be demolished.
Bonginkosi Madikizela says he now understands why tenants refuse to pay rent. Read the rest of this entry »
an emergency effort is needed
August 12, 2009 Edition 1 Martin Legassick – Cape TimesIt is good news that Tokyo Sexwale and Helen Zille have decided to bury the hatchet on the petty squabbling between the ANC and DA (largely, let it be said, initiated by the ANC) over the N2 Gateway project and land allocation in the province.
The spat has hampered housing delivery in the province. We are now told “the three spheres of government are to sit around one table to decide on the future of the project.” (“Sexwale, Zille and city to decide on N2 Gateway,” August 10).
But Sexwale, Zille, Dan Plato and their officials would be making a big mistake if they believed the future could be settled without involving beneficiary communities, through their representative committees, at the decision-making table. Read the rest of this entry »
AEC Note: Tokyo Sekwale, owner of a R56 million house, and a man who cited matchbox houses as one of his reasons for taking up arms against apartheid, declares protest against ‘housing’ far worse than apartheid’s matchbox houses to be ‘anarchy’ that will be met with ‘zero tolerance’….Also, see the Media Briefing below where Sexwale compares protesting families to armies of people holding bazookas….Also, now that Thubelisha and Trafalgar are gone, Joe Slovo Phase 1 will now be managed by the corrupt and problematic Cape Town Community Housing Company.
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Sexwale warns unruly protesters
July 01 2009 at 10:45AM By Gaye DavisHuman Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has warned that the government will take tough action against people who want to render any part of the country ungovernable. Read the rest of this entry »
Sandra Liebenberg – Business Day
Published: 2009/06/22 06:49:37 AM
OVER a period of 10 months commencing on August 17, the largest judicially sanctioned eviction of a community in SA’s post-apartheid period will take place. The 20000-strong impoverished community of the Joe Slovo informal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town will be required to relocate 15km away to a temporary relocation area in Delft. Read the rest of this entry »
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