slums act

AbM V Government on the Slums Act in the Durban High Court on 6 & 7 November

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Durban High Court, 6 November 2008

3 November 2008
Press Statement by the Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League

Abahlali baseMjondolo Case Against the KwaZulu-Natal Eradication and Prevention of Re-Emergence of Slums Act to be Heard in the Durban High Court on 6 and 7 November 2008

Across the country the government is chasing the poor people out of the cities. Across the country we are mobilising to defend our right to the cities.

We are in the cities for good reasons – we need work, education, clinics, libraries and more. Pay is higher and prices are lower in the cities. Therefore we need land and housing in the cities. But the government only want our votes. They do not want us in the cities. Therefore we have said ‘No Land! No House! No Vote!’

Isolezwe: Lusezithebeni zenkantolo elokuqedwa kwemijondolo

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http://www.isolezwe.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4700564

Lusezithebeni zenkantolo elokuqedwa kwemijondolo

November 07, 2008 Edition 1

BAWINILE NGCOBO

KUZOQHUBEKA namuhla enkantolo enkulu yaseThekwini ukulalelwa kwesicelo sokuthi kusulwe umthetho wokuqeda imijondolo kwaZulu Natal, i-Slums Act.

Lesi sicelo sifakwe yinhla-ngano eyaziwa ngokuthi Abahlali Basemjondolo kanti ukulalelwa kwaso kuqale izolo. Abantu abahlala ezindaweni eziyimijondolo ngaphansi kwale nhlangano bebegcwele ngaphandle kwenkantolo becula amaculo omzabalazo bezokweseka abameli babo.

Mercury: Slums Act hearings begin in Durban

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http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4700038

Slums Act hearings begin in Durban

November 07, 2008 Edition 1

Tania Broughton

DANCING and singing, a crowd of red-T-shirt-clad shack dwellers descended on the Durban High Court yesterday to hear legal argument in their attempt to have the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act deemed unconstitutional and scrapped from the law books.

"Phansi, Slums Act, Phansi," their T-shirts and banners proclaimed as they blew vuvuzelas and chanted freedom songs outside the court building at the start of the two-day hearing.

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