forced removal

Sowetan: 'We don’t want to live in Tin Can Town’

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'We don’t want to live in Tin Can Town’

09 November 2009
Anna Majavu

‘CONCENTRATION CAMP’: Children walk between the zinc houses that were built in Delft, about 30km from Cape Town, as a “temporary” relocation area before people are moved to houses. Photo: Roger Sedres

CAPE Town’s homeless people have accused the metro police of forcibly moving them to the Blikkiesdorp “temporary relocation area” – only for the city’s land invasion unit to evict them for invading land.

Jo'burg: Empty promises spark protest

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Click here to see pictures from the protest.

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20090706060754336C149753

Empty promises spark protest
6 July 2009, 06:26

By Poloko Tau and Jacques Breytenbach

Diepsloot was plunged into darkness on Sunday night after a housing protest turned violent.

Roads were barricaded with burning tyres and furniture, large rocks littered the streets, and on several occasions, police resorted to firing rubber bullets at the unruly crowd. Criminals took advantage of the chaos as they looted shops.

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