The article by Willies Mchunu, the Safety & Security MEC who notoriously claimed to have have 'liberated' Kennedy Road after the attack on the AbM, to which the piece below was written in response, is online here.

http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=29985

The Kennedy Road Informal Settlement controversy: Why an independent inquiry is essential
27 Oct 2009

Jared Sacks

ON October?20, in an article titled “The Kennedy Road Informal Settlement controversy: the ANC side of the story”, MEC Willies Mchunu replied to an opinion piece of mine, which laid the blame for the attacks on local shebeen owners who were in cahoots with members of the local branch of the African National Congress.

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5199449

Violent campaign against homeless people's group
The Kennedy 8 are the new Rivonia trialists, writes Jared Sacks

October 12, 2009 Edition 1

Jared Sacks

I was at the bail hearing for the "Kennedy 8" on Thursday when they were denied bail and sent to the notorious Westville prison.

I had come to Durban from Cape Town to meet up with staff members of the Clare Estate Drop-in Centre, which operated in Kennedy Road until the recent attacks, when it was ransacked and forced to close. The CEDIC had supported hundreds of orphaned and other vulnerable children from the community and also helped run a community creche next door.

Business Day
Published: 2009/10/07 06:37:17 AM

Kennedy Road Truth Being Hidden

African National Congress (ANC) stalwart and transport, community safety and liaison MEC Willies Mchunu has been sending out many press statements and holding a number of press conferences lately. The recurrent theme is that there is some sinister “forum” associated with Abahlali base Mjondolo president Sbu Zikode and that it was this “forum” that carried out the recent mob attacks in the Kennedy Road settlement in Durban, which killed at least four people and displaced as many as a thousand others.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/54719

Letters
If you don't vote, you can complain
Open letter to South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
Rosa Blaauw and Jared Sacks (2009-03-11)

Re: Misinformation on IEC TV ads for voter registration including the ad ‘if you don't vote, you can't complain’

Dear Chairperson Dr Brigalia Bam,

A recent television ad for the campaign for voter registration by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has a line which implies that non-voting South African citizens have no power to bring about change in this country. ‘If you don't vote, you can't complain’ shows the short-sightedness and arrogance of the current political system, which attempts to convince South Africans that voting is the most effective and only way to bring about change in this country.