30 September 2009

Press release on Kennedy Road

The Association for Rural Advancement is deeply concerned about the
reports on the violence and destruction that has taken place in the
Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban.

For people in KwaZulu-Natal the memories of the violent destruction of
communities in the 1987 to 1994 period are all to fresh for this news
not to cause utter dismay. In South Africa we are also increasingly
conscious of the precariousness of our new found stability as local
communities begin to express their resentment at inadequate service
delivery and at the increasing inequality in society (the reality of