PLEASE NOTE – OUR PROTEST WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THIS WEEK
TOMORROW THE 24TH WE WILL PROTEST IN FRONT OF PROVINCIAL INHUMAN SETTLEMENT DEPARTMENT AND FRIDAY IN FRONT OF PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE TIME WILL BE 12:30 TILL 13:30 AND OUR PROTEST WILL CONTINUE TILL WE GET WHAT WE WANT
Protest at the Cape Town civic centre – 23 November 2011
Today at 12:30 Abahlali baseMjondolo of Western Cape had a protest outside the Civic Centre offices of City of Cape Town, calling on Patricia De Lille to meet with our members without imposing any terms of engagement and demanding that such meeting should take place at Khayelitsha where our members are based and it should be open to everybody, and everybody should be allowed to voice out his/her views without any fear of favor or intimidation.
When Patricia De Lille did not want to come out and accept our memorandum we were not surprised as an organization because we know how aloof she become after being paid back by the Democratic Alliance for selling out Coloured and African votes to the DA which is pro-rich.
She sent one of her junior staff members to come and collect our memorandum and when we handed over our memorandum which was written in placards in a forms of slogans Stofile who represented the City refused to accepts the placards instead he pushed them away and left.
We condemn the City for undermining the memorandum of the poor by the poor. Our memorandum was hand written and everybody who participated in our protest contributed meaningfully in our memorandum and the city had responsibility to respect our memorandum and respond to it within limited time.
Our struggles Continues!!
The Call for the Mayor to meet with us Continues!!
A call for Solidarity
We call up on all progressive organizations/ Non Governmental
Organizations/ Academics/ progressive individuals/ Community based
Organizations and Faith based Organization to write letters to City of
Cape Town and Condemn them for undermining the poorest of the poor
and urge Patricia De Lille to meet with members of Abahlali
baseMjondolo of the Western Cape.
All letters that goes to City of Cape Town must be sent to mayor@capetown.gov.za, Lwandiso.Stofile@capetown.gov.za and Monique.Scharffenorth@capetown.gov.za.
And they must be cc to abmwesterncape@abahlali.org
And people can phone mayor’s office at 021 400 1300/01
And the mayor direct can be reached at 0833038352
And we encourage people to take advantage of her cell number and
engage with her direct.
For more information please call:
Mzonke Poni @ 073 2562 036
Mthobeli Qona @ 076 041 0057
Charles Adams @ 074 689 5980