27th April UnFreedom Day Mass Rally at QQ Shack Settlement, Khayelitsha

Tomorrow the 27th April, most people through out the country will be celebrating 17 years of our so called freedom or democracy.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape joined by Mandela Park Back yard dwellers, Gugulethu Anti-eviction Campaign, Delft Anti-eviction Campaign, Langa Concerned group from Langa TRA's and by many other community based organizations including pastor Xola Skosana who led a march from Gugulethu to Khayelitsha on the 23rd April under the campaign 'Welcome to Hell South African Townships' will be hosting a shack fire summit at QQ informal settlement from 10: am till 13:00 pm.

http://www.khayelitshastruggles.com/2011/04/re-invitation-to-shack-fire-summit.html

ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO MOVEMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA (WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE)
Website: khayelitshastruggles.com or www.abahlali.org
Email: abmwesterncape@abahlali.org office admin: 0732562036/073 4128 218

The above mentioned organization would like to invite your organization/ community/ area to a SHACK FIRE SUMMIT that will be held at QQ informal settlement site B Khayelitsha on 27 April 2011 from 10:00am to 13:00pm.

http://www.khayelitshastruggles.com/2011/04/re-2nd-week-call-for-madikizela-to-step.html

2nd week (a call for Madikizela to step down as MEC for human settlement continue

Tomorrow: 19th April 2011

Time: 10: am till 12:00

Place: Cape Town

Start point: Keizerngracht street, Cape Town (next to CPUT) (10: am)

Tomorrow the 19th April the call for Madikizela MEC for human settlement to step down as MEC continues, this follows a failure from him and his office to sign an undertaking that he will not ever again demolish people's structure or evict people within the Western Cape province without any order from the court.

Protest Day 1: A call for Madikizela, MEC for Human Settlement to resign

PROTEST DAY ONE

Last week Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape made a call to MEC for human settlement MR. Bonginkosi Madikizela to sign an undertaking that he will never, ever again within the Western Cape Province demolish or evict people without any order from the court.

This follows number of illegal activities and intimidation carried by his office lead by him. ABM WC gave him seven working days to respond, and as an organization we were only expecting him to sign an undertaking that says he will not demolish people’s structures without following the legal route. A failure to sign such undertaking simply shows that he is arrogant and thinks that he is above the law.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape
No 28 Ramaphosa street site B
Khayelitsha
7784
www.khayelitshastruggles.com
cell: 073 2562 036

Department of Human Settlement
27 Wale Street Cape Town
Tel: 021 483 4466
Fax: 021 483 3888

To: MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela

RE: Undertaking not to carry any illegal eviction within the province

Dear MEC

Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape has observed with great concern for the past few months, your department and city of Cape Town have been engaging with unlawful activities on demolishing people’s structures and evicting people without any order from the court.

http://www.khayelitshastruggles.com/2011/04/abahlali-basemjondolo-western-cape.html

ABM WC Welcomes Joe Slovo informal settlement constitutional court judgement

Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape welcomes the Joe Slovo Constitutional Court Judgement which was handed over Thursday last week. Which set aside the eviction order granted in June 2009.

While this is a victory for people of Joe Slovo who did not want to be evicted to Delft, we also note that:

1. If the previous Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was not arrogant, and was willing to engage meaningfully with the residents of Joe Slovo the whole dispute between both parties would have been resolved outside the court and satisfactory decision to both parties would have been reached.

Website: khayelitshastruggles.com or www.abahlali.org
Email: abmwesterncape@abahlali.org office admin: 073 2562 036/ 083 446 5081

Invitation to All Those Seeking Political Office to Come Down to the People

On the 21 March 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape will have a mass rally at the VE shack settlement in Khayelitsha from 10:00 till 13:00. Representatives of 15 communities will attend this rally. The aim of the rally is to launch our campaign for the 2011 local government elections, which is: No Land! No House! No Water! No Electricity! No Jobs! No Freedom! No Vote!

http://www.khayelitshastruggles.com/2011/03/re-press-statement-for-21st-march-2011.html

Press Statement for 21st March 2011 (Human Rights Day)

On the 21 March 2011 Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape will have a mass rally at VE informal Settlement at 10:00 till 13:00.

The aim of the rally is to launch our campaign for the 2011 local government elections, which is: No! Land No! House No! Water No! Electricity No! Jobs No! Vote.

As much as this day was supposed to be celebrated as a Human Rights Day in South Africa and having one of the best constitution in the world which recognised the socio economic rights.

Open Letter to DA Leader Helen Zille

Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape Rejects DA Hypocrisy and Stands Firm for Press Freedom

As a movement we have become used to the blatant hypocrisy of the DA over the years.

The DA says that it wants to crack down on crime and support the rule of law but then it engages in unlawful and criminal evictions, as in Macassar Village in 2009. In South African law any eviction without a court order is an unlawful and criminal act and yet the DA began to demolish shacks in Macassar Village without a court order on 21 May 2009. We went to court to secure an urgent interdict to stop the DA from engaging in these criminal attacks on the poor and we won that interdict and yet you then went ahead and demolished shacks in violation of that court order. The criminality of your municipal government here in Cape Town was condemned by local church leaders and international human rights organisations.

18 December 2010
Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape

Another Shack Fire Rips Through Khayelitsha - BE Section Burns

Tonight VE section in Khayelitsha has burnt. At least seven homes have been destroyed.

We have made it clear that as a movement we refuse to accept that it is normal for the homes of the poor to burn like this. We are determined to demand that the plague of shack fires is treated as the crisis that it is and that real steps are taken to free us from this plague.