http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=890350

Gateway housing project in a shambles

Bobby Jordan Published:Nov 23, 2008

Only five families out of an estimated 20000 shack dwellers from one of South Africa’s poorest settlements have been accommodated at the state’s flagship housing development built on their doorstep.

Meant to showcase the country’s progressive housing policy promoting racially integrated cities, phase one of the N2 Gateway project next to the Joe Slovo shack settlement in Cape Town is instead a monument to a losing battle against the national housing backlog.

JUDGEMENT DAY ~ NO LAND, NO HOUSE, NO VOTE!
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release

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When: Friday 21st of November 2008
Where: Magistrate Court, Cape Town (between Buitenkant str & Parade Str)
Time: 08h30
Case: Gympie Street vs Pastor Dennis Robertson

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On Friday the 21st of November the Cape Town Magistrate's Court will give its verdict on the case against the Gympie Street residents. This latest legal battle represents yet another attempt by slumlord Pastor Dennis Robertson to evict the people of Gympie Street. He seems simply unwilling to accept that the people of Gympie Street have a right to adequate housing and dignity. Indeed, he has even been working with the City Council and the police to drive the people from the road. This has seen him collaborating with the City Council to cut off people's water and electricity, and working with the police to routinely harass and arrest people. It is clear that the threatened mass eviction of families who have been staying in the area for decades, is part of the gentrification process (linked to the World Cup) to clear the City Centre of the poor so that the landlords and the elite can profit and move into the area. As such, this latest legal action is about trying to DUMP the people of Gympie Street on the outskirts of the City. Nonetheless, like the three previous cases, the ruling of the latest case will once again be in favour of the people of Gympie Street.

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.

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.

http://www.baystatebanner.com/World21-2008-09-11

South Africans protest mass eviction order in court

by Toussaint Losier

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Dancing the toyi-toyi, stomping their feet and singing protest songs, more than 100 residents of the informal Joe Slovo settlement in Cape Town and their supporters rallied outside of South Africa’s Constitutional Court last month in support of the community’s right to adequate housing.

The LRC's defence against the City's attack was successful. Here are the documents from December 12, 2006.

The Legal Resources Centre has gone to bat for Abahlali members evicted from Motala Farm and Juba Place. See the first salvo against the City Manager, Mike Sutcliffe, below.