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http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-24-its-our-duty-not-to-be-silent

News | National | Land & Housing
'It's our duty not to be silent'
PEARLIE JOUBERT | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Aug 24 2008 06:00

After 15 years of fighting with government and the Cape Town municipality about their right to live in Langa, the Joe Slovo community finally had their day in the Constitutional Court this week.

Opposing their right to continue living in Cape Town's Langa township -- earmarked for housing development -- were Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, government-appointed housing agency Thubelisha Homes, former Western Cape housing minister Richard Dyantyi and the city of Cape Town.

Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Press Alert – For Immediate Release

Thursday, 28 July 2008

Joe Slovo Residents to overnight in Symphony Way, in solidarity with Delft Pavement Dwellers

Date: Saturday, 30 August 2008
Time: 16h00
Location: Symphony Way, Delft

Delft – Following their trip to Johannesburg and attendance at the SA Constitutional Court hearing last week, residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa, Cape Town will be visiting the evicted residents of the N2 Gateway Houses along Symphony Way in Delft this Saturday. In addition to sharing the lessons of their struggle against forced relocation to the city's Temporary Relocation Areasin Delft, Joe Slovo residents will also spend the night in the shacks along Symphony Way as a demonstration of solidarity.

http://www.baystatebanner.com/World21-2008-09-11

South Africans protest mass eviction order in court

by Toussaint Losier

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Dancing the toyi-toyi, stomping their feet and singing protest songs, more than 100 residents of the informal Joe Slovo settlement in Cape Town and their supporters rallied outside of South Africa’s Constitutional Court last month in support of the community’s right to adequate housing.

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=890350

Gateway housing project in a shambles

Bobby Jordan Published:Nov 23, 2008

Only five families out of an estimated 20000 shack dwellers from one of South Africa’s poorest settlements have been accommodated at the state’s flagship housing development built on their doorstep.

Meant to showcase the country’s progressive housing policy promoting racially integrated cities, phase one of the N2 Gateway project next to the Joe Slovo shack settlement in Cape Town is instead a monument to a losing battle against the national housing backlog.

Click here to read the judgment in word and here to read it in pdf.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/?fSectionId=3531&fArticleId=nw20090610104514469C157459

Court seals fate of Joe Slovo residents
10 June 2009, 10:46

The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that 20 000 residents in the Joe Slovo informal settlement on the Cape Flats must be evicted.

However, five judges said in an unanimous judgment that those evicted must be given alternative housing.

Click here to read the judgment in word and here to read it in pdf.

http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1015832

Court puts an end to life in Joe Slovo
11 June 2009
Anna Majavu - majavua@sowetan.co.za

Residents to get new area

One of Cape Town’s largest informal settlements – Joe Slovo, Langa – is set to be entirely demolished after the Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that its 20000 residents be moved out.

Click here to read the judgment in word and here to read it in pdf.

A (partial) victory for Joe Slovo residents
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Pierre De Vos

The Constitutional Court today granted an order for the eviction of Joe Slovo residents to far off Delft to facilitate the building of houses as part of the N2 Gateway Project. The fact that the court ordered the removal of people from their homes where they have lived for the past 15 years, will rightly be harshly criticised. It has failed to display the kind of “grace and compassion” one would expect of the self-styled champion of the vulnerable and dispossessed.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5037783

Ruling brings relief to too few shack dwellers

June 16, 2009 Edition 1

Your editorial ("A mixed outcome", June 11) claims the Constitutional Court's decision on the eviction of the residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement to make way for N2 Gateway homes included the provision that "70 percent of the shack dwellers who were recorded as being resident there in 2000, and qualified for this housing, should be returned to the area once new homes have been built."

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=&art_id=vn20090621060617662C222426

June 21 2009 at 01:32PM

By Nwabisa Msutwana-Stemela

Tension is mounting in Langa near Cape Town as informal settlers from Joe Slovo slowly fill up every available piece of open land in the more established areas.

Joe Slovo residents, many of whom were moved to make way for the Gateway project and who do not want to move to residential units in Delft, have settled in other parts of Langa in their hundreds and erected shacks.