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AEC and stakeholders in recent anti-xenophobia negotiations head to parliament today
24 08 2009Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Alert
August 24, 2009
August 24, 2009
Today, Monday the 24th of August, representatives of the Anti-Eviction Campaign, the UNHR, as well as Somalian and local shopkeepers who recently signed a deal to prevent further violence in our townships, will head to Parliament.
They are slated to discuss the deal and the challenges associated with the recent negotiations at 14h00.
For more information, contact Mncedisi at 078 580 8646
For a collection of press releases and articles on the negotiation and xenophobia in general, click here.
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Tags: Parliament, somalian traders, UNHR
Categories : Afrophobia (Xenophobia), Archives, gugulethu, News & Press Release
Media: Women Want Land to Call Their Own
10 08 2009By Davison Makanga – IPS News
CAPE TOWN, Aug 10 (IPS) – In 1956, twenty thousand women marched to parliament to protest discriminatory pass laws. The march, commemorated as Women’s Day in South Africa on Aug. 9 each year, has become iconic of women’s quest for equality.
A democratic constitution has replaced apartheid laws, but the reality on the ground suggests freedom and equality for all has not yet been attained.
Fifteen years after apartheid was replaced by non-racial democracy, South African farm workers say they still face discrimination. The final week of July saw a coordinated series of protests by farm workers in the Western Cape against poor working conditions, retrenchments and evictions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: BEE, land redistribution, Parliament, Sikhula Sonke, Stellenbosch Wine Festival
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News, Solidarity
Media: Farm workers protest over poor living conditions and evictions
27 07 2009July 27, 2009 Edition 1
Francis Hweshe – Argus
FARM workers have vowed to spend two nights outside Parliament during a week of “revolutionary action”.
Today the workers, from Breede River, Witzenburg, Overberg, Oostenberg and Boland, plan to start their protest by spending the night on a wine farm in Stellenbosch, to highlight the plight of workers there. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: farmworkers, Parliament, Sikhula Sonke, Wendy Pekeur
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News
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