15 Informal Settlement within Khayelitsha today will be joining Abahlali baseMjondolo for the Western Cape to the march that goes to the Mayor (Dan Plato) of the City of Cape Town. Each community will submit it’s own list of demands.
for community demands and contact people please visit www.khayelitshastruggles.com
details of the March:
date: Today 20th July 2009 time: 11:00for comment please call Mzonke Poni 073 256 2036
Disgruntled with their living conditions, Khayelitsha residents say that resorting to violent protest is the only way they will force the government to deliver on basic services.
Yesterday, residents of QQ Section in Site B entered their second day of protest action, in which they clashed with the police and burned tyres and rubbish in Lansdowne Road.
On Tuesday, after widespread flooding across the city because of heavy rain, theirs was one of a number of service delivery protests reported, with others in Du Noon and Samora Machel.
The Khayelitsha residents are demanding – among other services – toilets, land for housing, water and an electricity supply from the government. Read the rest of this entry »
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More protests flare over lack of services
Charles Molele Published:Jul 12, 2009 – The Times
‘They want to dump us in another slum without clean water, electricity or sanitation’
Huge shack settlement latest to ignite over government’s poor delivery record Read the rest of this entry »
Government leaders have branded service delivery protests in Happy Valley earlier on Monday as “purely political” and have refused to meet with the community. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear young black person,
Black youth living in South Africa today is in deep trouble. Even though we were promised a better life after 1994 by our black government, many of us still live in squatter camps and small RDP houses because white people still own more than 80% of South African land which has been stolen over the last 300 years. As young black people we have to ask ourselves what is stopping our government from improving our lives and is there a future for us if black people do not have land. Will black people not be trapped in squatter camps and townships forever if our government refuses to take our land back from whites? Read the rest of this entry »
AEC Note: Protesters here, like in Khayelitsha, are protesting both the ANC and DA’s lack of service delivery. They are not angry about who won the elections. All they want is for the politicians to give them the same services that they give people in the wealthy suburbs.By Nomangesi Mbiza, Andisiwe Makinana and Elle Smook Source: Cape Argus
As Helen Zille is sworn in as the Western Cape’s new premier on Wednesday, violent service delivery protests that have rocked Khayelitsha for more than week have now spread to Athlone.
On Tuesday, Zille claimed the ANC was driving the protests, but the party denied it had anything to do with the prolonged action, saying it was a reflection of people’s frustration over service delivery.
The party accused Zille of “conspiracy theories” and “grandstanding”.
ANC provincial secretary Sipho Kroma said the ANC supported the people’s right to express dissatisfaction with poor service delivery, but that protests should remain lawful.
Residents of Pookesebos in Athlone blocked part of Pooke Road with burning trees, tyres and rubbish. Read the rest of this entry »
Residents of Site C in Khayelitsha have cut off access to a section of Lansdowne Road by digging more trenches in the road and have threatened to target the N2 next if they are not provided with basic services.
“We want to take this to the N2 where it will affect the white people,” said one of the men behind the protests. He said while they were trying to make a point in Site C, they wanted their struggle to be seen and felt by the affluent. Read the rest of this entry »
Gugulethu residents protest on election day declaring No Land! No House No Vote!
See this Sowetan article on the protest for more info
Delft AEC Press Update
19 February 2009
Today, as promised, Symphony Way residents spent about 17 hours commemorating last February’s violent evictions, as well as taking note of the significant effect that living on a road has been for the community.
We started the day by waking up at 4am – the same time as the evictions began on 19th February 2008. The entire road came together in prayer and then held a candle lighting vigil. We then watched a very emotional slide show of our experiences with one another including the mass meetings with Frank Martin that set our community on the path to occupation in the first place (Martin has now received a slap on the wrist for committing mass fraud and abandoning us to face the wrath of the Province and the police during the evictions).
After the slide show, residents told their personal histories and how the evictions had effected them. This was the most emotional time of the day as we recounted both the good and the bad of our struggle. After breaking for a while, the children brought us back together with a series of plays which they came up with themselves. Themes varied from recounting last year’s unjust evictions, fictional accounts of how school and life weave together for communities in struggle, and even a comedic sketch of how the children interpret the roadside politics of the adults. Finally, the children came up with a few personal histories of their own. Differing from the parents in that it challenged the parent’s own account of the evictions but still no less emotional. Read the rest of this entry »
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