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Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay

The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

December 8, 2009

In post-apartheid South Africa, social movements are using direct action to fight privatization, displacement and police brutality. In an interview with KPFA’s “Against the Grain”, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign’s Ashraf Cassiem talks about their work opposing neoliberalism on the ground, helping poor people to self-organize to fight eviction, turn back on water and electricity for which they cannot afford to pay, and resist the commodification of basic resources.

http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=985301

Record turnout expected at polls
22 April 2009
Anna Majavu

Results will show which party was successful in selling its message

Millions of people are holding their breath over what will happen after they have cast their votes today.

Twenty-three million voters go to almost 20000 polling stations to choose between the 40 parties contesting what analysts have described as the most competitive election in South Africa so far.

All, except business leaders, who hope for more of the same, are expecting a radical shake-up of the political scene in the months to come.

http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=985309

60 landless people arrested
22 April 2009

Police yesterday arrested 60 members of the Landless People’s Movement as they threatened to stage a sleep-in at the Department of Land Affairs offices in Pietermaritzburg.

They demanded to meet senior politicians, including ANC provincial chairperson Zweli Mkhize and Minister of Agriculture Lulu Xingwana.

The protesters said they were fed up with the “abuse being meted against farm dwellers”. They have threatened not to vote today.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3086&art_id=nw20090422075128792C870279

Protesters refuse to vote

April 22 2009 at 07:55AM

By Anna Cox

A group of about 300 protesters gathered at River Park in Alexandra before dawn this morning. They are all residents of a nearby squatter camp, and embarked on a protest against a lack of housing.
The toyi-toying crowd stood on an embankment on London Road, chanting "No house, no vote".

Community leader Thabo Modisan said people were not happy about the election and refused to vote until they got houses.

Why we refuse to vote

By Staff Reporters and Sapa

A community living on the fringes of Cape Town is sick and tired of being used by politicians, and won't vote in Wednesday's elections.

The Symphony Way pavement dwellers, who set up house on the pavement of Delft Street and are refusing to budge until they get proper homes, have accused political parties of trying to bribe them with offers of help only during election time.

The residents, wearing T-shirts bearing the slogan "No Houses, No Land, No Vote", said COPE went as far as to offer to provide an advocate to help them in their court battle against their eviction.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090419064424658C843460

'No land, no home, no vote'

By Susan Comrie

The new bank-bonded houses on Symphony Way in Delft are standing empty - bright signs invite people to "come in and have a look" - but around the perimeter the razor-wire fence sends a different message.

Just metres away, the Symphony Way pavement dwellers look on angrily.

They have spent the past 14 months living in makeshift homes along this small section of road in Delft after they were evicted from houses they illegally occupied in the N2 Gateway Project in February last year.