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Livelihoods Lost for Mitchells Plain Traders
Saturday, 13 March 2010, 10:55 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The community of Mitchells Plain and the majority of Traders express disappointment at the local government in the way they have handled the allocation process in the Town Centre. According to the City they have followed procedure, but CHATA still ... More >>
Demonstration In Langa
Friday, 29 January 2010, 10:38 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
In the Backstage area of Langa a policeman has illegally evicted a woman from her house and is now living in it. (Backstage is near the cemetery and the railway station). Mrs Rhulashe, the former owner, now has to sleep under the bridge between Bonteheuwel ... More >>
Illegal evictions by City of Cape Town
Friday, 22 January 2010, 9:04 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
At 4pm today, 48 law enforcement officers from the City of Cape Town invaded the city's Temporary Relocation Area, Blikkiesdorp, and removed about 60 people from the one roomed dwellings. More >>
Experiences Of Abahlali Basemjondolo In Durban
Monday, 14 December 2009, 1:05 pm | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
South Africa’s apartheid past has had a deep and enduring impact on housing, more so in the case of poorer communities.At the end of the apartheid era in 1994, shortage in urban housing was estimated at 1.5 million, with an increase of 178, 000 households ... More >>
Notes on the Police Attack on the Pemary Ridge
Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:38 pm | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The Sydenham police arrived at Pemary Ridge at around 8pm on Friday night in one private car.Three police officers first went to a woman's tuck shop. They found that the shop was closed, and proceeded to kick down the front door. The woman, hearing ... More >>
Hundreds protested after assault
Friday, 13 November 2009, 10:07 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Yesterday morning, two Mandela Park residents were assaulted by four Chippa security guards at the instruction of the local SANCO chairperson. The two residents along with 7 witnesses went to the police station to lay a charge against the guards. As ... More >>
RSA:Police shoot residents in Sth Africa protest
Friday, 30 October 2009, 9:31 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The Gugulethu police interrupted a peaceful protest by the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign this afternoon. Without warning residents at all, they shot at us with rubber bullets injuring dozens and arresting many others. More >>
AEC Old Crossroads launch second mass meeting
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 2:40 pm | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
A whole family (actually 6 families living in one home) residing at No.17 Emery Street in Eastridge “Smartie Town” in Mitchell's Plain has been unfairly and unlawfully evicted. Now, at least 20 more families are slated to be evicted in Eastridge. More >>
1year Old Turned Away From Three CT Clinics
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:51 pm | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign decided at its provincial meeting yesterday to take up the case of the deceased one year old, Unabantu Mali, who died on her grandmothers back last week after being turned away from three clinics in Nyanga, ... More >>
Residents to attend Cape High Court on the 20th
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 1:24 pm | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
We, the Delft Symphony Residents received an application of eviction from the City of Cape Town. We must appear in the High Court on the 20th of March of 2009 at 10h00. On the 9th of March of 2009 we went to advocates in town, Cliffe, Dekke, Hofmeyr, ... More >>
RSA: St James Street Residents Defend Themselves
Friday, 20 March 2009, 12:58 pm | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Today in the Cape Town Magistrates Court the respondents' (St James Street) attorney Mr Zehir Omar argued that they are not unlawful occupiers. He argued that they signed a proper lease agreement and have paid their rent on time. More >>
Evictions in Gugulethu: Family left homeless
Friday, 16 January 2009, 10:44 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Bongani Goniwe said the eviction order that took them by surprise was received on the 25 of November last year. Goniwe said they did not know what to do as they were still pondering the next step. More >>
Social Movement Struggles for Land In SA
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 11:36 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
In the predawn hours of Saturday, September 13th, 2008, a devastating fire tore through the thousands of wood and zinc shacks that make up the Foreman Road informal settlement in Durban. Sparked by an unattended candle, the fire spread quickly and raged for ... More >>
eMacambini Anti-Removal Committee Press Statement
Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 11:01 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
At least ten thousand people are expected to march on KwaZulu-Natal Premier S'bu Ndebele tomorrow morning. A memorandum will be handed to the Premier warning him to immediately retract his plans to evict 10 000 families from eMacambini and to ... More >>
Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 12:33 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Delft-Symphony -- On Wednesday, July 2nd at the Bellville Magistrates Court courtroom E, two members of the Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign, Jerome Daniels and Ridwaan Isaacs, were each sentenced twelve months in prison - simply for being community leaders ... More >>
QQ Section Concerned Residents
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 12:49 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Khayelitsha – While the Democratic Alliance and the ANC fight with one another over service delivery in order to gain votes for the upcoming elections, a small community has decided that they are tired of relying on politicians and their false ... More >>
Evictions Continue In Hout Bay; Residents Resist
Monday, 14 April 2008, 11:03 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The eviction of eight families, 25 adults and 15 children living in shacks and brick houses along the beach in Hangberg, Hout Bay was scheduled for last week. More >>
Tents In Anti-Eviction Section Of Delft Removed
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 10:03 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The Democratic Alliance (DA) controlled City of Cape Town along with scores of heavily armed police have just stolen four large tents donated by Islamic Relief to the homeless, evicted people of Delft, who are currently sleeping outside on Symphony Way. More >>
Police Set Up Two Illegal Roadblocks In Delft
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 10:02 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The police have set up two roadblocks on each side of Symphony Way, which is the Delft road being occupied by the 1600 people who were evicted from the occupied houses last week. The police are using the roadblocks to refuse media and relief. More >>
Delft Homeless Now Being Evicted From Their Tents
Monday, 25 February 2008, 9:26 am | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The provincial Social Welfare Department and the Democratic Alliance's Dan Plato are threatening Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) because the charity has put up tents for the recently evicted residents of Delft. They are threatening tear down the tents. More >>
