Friday, 06 March 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo to Launch Another New Branch
New AbM Branch to be Launched at Siyanda Section B on Saturday 7 March 2009
Despite all the hardship currently faced by Abahlali baseMjondolo and in shack settlements all over Durban the movement will be launching another new branch in Siyanda at Section B. The community is tired of the empty promises by the municipality and the negligences of the Department of Housing which delays the process of access to adequate houses. The fact that the community is waiting for houses doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be provided with the basic infrastructures like water, toilets, electricity etc while they wait. This infrastructure is basic – it is necessary for people’s safety and dignity.
This community feel like they are the forgotten citizens. Every time when they try to make queries about their future the municipality says they ‘don’t appear on the municipality database’. But when the politicians want to campaign for the upcoming election they suddenly know that this community does exist.
This community is prepared to fight this thing with the help of the movement and to show the municipality and their councillor that they do exist and that they do qualify for better houses and for basic services while they wait for housing.
The new branch, which will be the second Abahlali baseMjondolo branch in Siyanda, will be launched tomorrow:
Date: 07-03-09
Place: Siyanda Mazulu School
Time: 15:00 pm.
Sekwanele!
The contact person in Siyanda B is Nomusa Nxumalo. She can be contacted on 076 579 6198
The Abahlali baseMjondolo office in the Kennedy Road settlement can be contacted on: 031-269 1822
Siyanda – Digital Archive
Siyanda residents wounded by police rubber bullets during road blockade, 4 December 2006
Protesters hurt as police fire rubber bullets, Daily News, 5 December 2005
What Happened at or to the SMI, 18 December 2006
Abantu abampofu namaPhoyisa, Izwe Labampofu, 14 January 2007
The Strong Poor and the Police, Izwe Labampofu, 19 January 2008
‘No one can have it if we can’t’, Daily News, 20 August 2008
Victory in Court While Evictions Continue Outside, 26 August 2008
Ward councillor locked in home over service delay, 12 September 2008
Bebesho ukubakhipha ngodli ezindlini zomxhaso,Isolezwe 16 September 2008
Siyanda Crisis: Evictions, Police Intimidation, Unjust Housing Allocation etc., 17 September 2008
Siyanda Pictures, 17 September 2008
Letter to Obed Mlaba on the Siyanda Crisis from the Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions, 24 October 2008
Siyanda – the day before the big march, 9 November 2008
Memorandum of Demands by the Siyanda Abahlali baseMjondolo Branch, 10 November 2008
Pictures of the Siyanda March (1), 10 November 2008
Pictures of the Siyanda March(2), 10 November 2008
KZN housing development threatened, Daily News 13 November 2008
Pictures of the meeting to plan resistance to Bheki Cele’s evictions & pictures of the transit camp to which people are supposed to be forcibly removed, 7 December 2008
Bheki Cele Threatens 61 Siyanda Families with Forced Removal, 7 December 2008
Siyanda Abahlali baseMjondolo Letter to the State Attorney, 9 December 2008
Pictures of the removal to the transit camp (accepted by 2 families), 11 December 2008
Siyanda on Google Earth, uploaded 12 December 2008
50 Families Remain in the their Homes and Refuse Eviction to “Transit Camp” Under Heavy Police Presence, 18 December 2008
Siyanda, Report Back from the High Court, 9 January 2009 (This picture set also shows the size of the Siyanda shacks
Siyanda: Agreement on Negotiations, Court Date Set Down for 27 January, 12 January 2009
Abahlali baseMjondolo answering affidavit, 22nd January 2009
CALS Statement on Forced Removal of Siyanda Residents to Transit Camps, 23 January 2009
Mercury Op-Ed: ‘Forced Removals’, by Kerry Chance, Marie Huchzermeyer and Mark Hunter 29 January 2009
Durban High Court Delays Bheki Cele’s Attempt at Forced Removal from Siyanda to the Richmond Farm Transit Camp, 7 February 2009
