Media: D-day for CT land invaders

30 08 2011

Catherine Rice | EWN

Final arguments are expected to be heard in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday as city bosses continue to try and evict hundreds of people from council land in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain.

People gathered in front of the courthouse to protest the lack of land and housing for Cape Town’s poor.

The steps of the high court were cordoned off and a line of police officers were stationed at the entrance to protect the building.

A two-year-old child stood at the front of the crowd carrying a placard with the words: “No to Blikkiesdorp”.

About 23 families remain on two fields in Tafelsig but the city wants to move them to the notorious temporary relocation area in Delft.
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Meida: Delft squatters shifted to Blikkiesdorp

28 10 2009

‘on symphony way we were a strong, respectful community… i’m moving with a heavy heart’

October 27, 2009 Edition 1
Quinton Mtyala –
Cape Times

HAVING been defiant for months, 23 of 127 families have relented and yesterday moved from pavement shelters in Symphony Way, Delft, to a notorious temporary resettlement area dubbed Blikkiesdorp.

Most expressed their fear at what awaited them at the row upon row of single-roomed corrugated iron shacks without water or electricity. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: Symphony Way squatters to meet with city council

25 10 2009

October 21, 2009 Edition 1
Aziz Hartley – Cape Times

REPRESENTATIVES of families squatting on the pavement next to Symphony Way in Delft will meet the city council today to discuss their relocation to Blikkiesdorp – a nearby temporary relocation area. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: Pavement dwellers dig in their heels

20 10 2009

Chantall Presence | 20 October 2009 | Eyewitness News

The Anti-eviction Campaign has vowed it would not give up on its fight to prevent pavement dwellers from being relocated to Blikkiesdorp. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: CT to evict pavement dwellers

19 10 2009

2009-10-19 14:28 – News 24

Cape Town – A Western Cape High Court judge on Monday granted an order for the eviction of 103 families who have been living in shacks on the pavement of Symphony Way, Delft, for the past 21 months.

The order allows authorities to shift the families in batches to corrugated iron structures in a nearby temporary relocation area nicknamed Blikkiesdorp. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: Symphony Way families to be forcibly removed

19 10 2009

Chantall Presence | 19 October 2009 | Eyewitness News

Delft Symphony Way dwellers may be forcibly removed soon.

The Western Cape High Court on Monday confirmed an earlier court order giving the city the right to relocate the families. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: We’d rather die than move away

8 10 2009
08 October 2009
Anna Majavu – The Sowetan

Residents fight bid to relocate them

“WE are prepared to die rather than be moved to the city of Cape Town’s temporary relocation area.” Read the rest of this entry »





Media: Court bid to evict Delft dwellers postponed

3 09 2009

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 »





Media: Reprieve for Symphony Way pavement dwellers

11 06 2009

Caitlin Ross – West Cape News
11 June 2009

Jubilant residents of Symphony Way in Delft sang and danced outside the Western Cape High Court yesterday (09/06/2009) in celebration of their successful application for a postponement of the hearing that will decide whether or not they will be evicted from their current home.

The residents, numbering about 100 and supported at the court by Anti-Eviction Campaign activists, were evicted from RDP houses in Delft on 17 February 2008, after a chaotic mix-up over whom the correct beneficiaries were. Read the rest of this entry »








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