By Mandisi Tyulu
22 September 2008
Source: Bush Radio
About 300 backyard dwellers have returned to the open piece of land on Lansdowne Road, next to the Fezeka municipal buildings and are going to start building their shacks there.
The community has twice tried to occupy this land, yesterday and last weekend, and the dwellers were on both times driven away at gunpoint by the police and metro cops.
Anti Eviction Campaign co-coordinator Mncedisi Twalo says this is very unjust as they have with them their “red cards” showing that they joined the housing waiting list many years ago, and besides, they have been promised this piece of land as backyarders by many different politicians especially just before elections.
“The community has vowed to go to the land every day and try to erect their shacks, until they succeed in getting the right to live on the land permanently”.
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AbM: Forced Relocations in Siyanda to Make Way for New FreewayFrom: antieviction.org.za
Post Date: 2008-09-17 14:03:18
Breaking News: Siyanda shack-dwellers, facing eviction from the MR577 Freeway site, are staging ongoing marches to halt building and allocations at the Kulula Housing Project. The contractors have just been stopped from proceeding with the patently unfair allocation of housing that has been undertaken without any form of meaningful consultation. There is a heavy police presence again today and the situation is tense. (There is an article in yesterday’s Isolezwe here .)
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Post Date: 2008-09-16 15:00:29
Aziz Hartley
September 16 2008 at 02:39PM
Source: Cape Times
The City of Cape Town says it is to seek a court order allowing it forcibly to move 141 families who have been squatting beside Symphony Way in Delft since February and refuse to leave.
The families were among hundreds of people who in December invaded N2 Gateway houses from which they were later evicted under a court order.
Most of the people accepted a council offer of accommodation in a nearby temporary residential area...
more Foreman Crisis: bulldozers stopped but government support only for people with ANC cardsFrom: antieviction.org.za
Post Date: 2008-09-16 12:10:08
11:52 Tuesday 16 September 2008
Although the City bought so many police with them when they came to demolish Abahlali baseMjondolo has stopped the bulldozers again today. This is a victory for people’s power.
The City has agreed to a meeting with the whole community across all political lines to plan a way forward for the community with the community. This is a victory for democracy. Abahlali baseMjondolo welcomes this decision and is prepared to work with the City to ensure that...
more AbM: Police, bulldozers, housing department arrive at Foreman to illegally demolish settlementFrom: antieviction.org.za
Post Date: 2008-09-16 12:07:40
11:07 a.m. Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Large numbers of heavily armed police officers and the housing department have arrived at the Foreman Road settlement with bulldozers to demolish the shacks rebuilt after the fire.
If they succeed these will be illegal demolitions that are, in South African law, criminal acts.
The Legal Resources Centre is rushing to the settlement. People who went to work after nothing happened this morning are quickly leaving work to rush home and try and defend...
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