Update: On 9 August 2009 the police and municipal officials arrived, unexpectedly, on the national public holiday of Women's Day, and attempted to evict. The people resisted and successfully drove the bulldozer back.Click here to read the story on this in the Witness.

11:49 p.m., 29 July 2009
Abahlali baseTumbleweed Press Statement

Municipality and Inkosi Threaten 61 Families with Homelessness in Tumbleweed, Howick

61 families living in the settlement of Tumbleweed, Howick, have been threatened with imminent, unlawful eviction by the municipality and the local Inkosi.

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This film shows some of the first meeting between a community in Howick and AbM. Abahlali were invited to a meeting by the community as they are facing eviction and will have to struggle against the local chief and the state.