27th April UnFreedom Day Mass Rally at QQ Shack Settlement, Khayelitsha

27th April UnFreedom Day Mass Rally at QQ Shack Settlement, Khayelitsha

Tomorrow the 27th April, most people through out the country will be celebrating 17 years of our so called freedom or democracy.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape joined by Mandela Park Back yard dwellers, Gugulethu Anti-eviction Campaign, Delft Anti-eviction Campaign, Langa Concerned group from Langa TRA's and by many other community based organizations including pastor Xola Skosana who led a march from Gugulethu to Khayelitsha on the 23rd April under the campaign 'Welcome to Hell South African Townships' will be hosting a shack fire summit at QQ informal settlement from 10: am till 13:00 pm.

The shack fire summit is part of our No Land, No House, No Vote campaign and tomorrow we will be lighting candles in memory of those who lost their lives through shack fire, Cindy from Langa a mother of 3 children who lost 1child during 2005 Joe Slovo shack fire will be sharing her story.

We will also look at the course of shack fires, and city of Cape Town has been invited to share the statistics in terms of number of shack fires that were reported during the period of 2009 and 2011 and the number of people died during these shack fires and their intervention.

Lastly we will come up with a program/ campaign to call for electrification of all shack settlement.

For more comment please call: Mzonke Poni @ 073 2562 036 or 083 4465 081
or Mthobeli Qona @ 076 041 0057
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