Derek Dimba

Illegal Evictions Happening at Gunpoint in Mpola Now

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2009-11-27 07:17. Abahlali baseMpola | Derek Dimba | evictions | Mpola

Click here to read the article in the Cape Times about Derek Dimba's unlawful and criminal evictions that have left a hundred people homeless.

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Emergence Press Statement 11:38, 26 November 2009

Illegal Evictions Happening at Gunpoint in Mpola Now

The eThekwini Municipality is currently illegally evicting families at gunpoint in Mpola. Thirty people already have been left homeless. The community requests all press to rush to the scene and to witness the rampant criminality of the eThekwini Municipality for themselves.

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Councillor and eThekwini Municipality Illegally Demolish Homes in Mpola

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-09-15 19:45. Abahlali baseMpola | Derek Dimba | evictions | law | Mpola

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15 September 2009

Councillor and eThekwini Municipality Illegally Demolish Homes in Mpola; More Families Left Homeless

Six more families were left homeless early this morning in Mpola, Marianhill, when a demolition crew took pangas to their homes. The demolition crew said they had been authorized by the notorious Ward 15 councillor, Derek Dimba. Backing the crew was 11 eThekwini Municipality security officers, all armed with guns.

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Cape Times: Guards demolish shacks

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2009-11-27 07:25. Derek Dimba | evictions | Mpola | Nompumelelo Magwaza | The Cape Times

http://www.capetimes.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20091126221515537C758842

Guards demolish shacks
26 November 2009, 22:47

By Nompumelelo Magwaza

Residents of Mpola informal settlement at Marrianridge, near Pinetown, spent Thursday rebuilding and repairing their shacks.

This was after a group of armed municipal security guards had ransacked and demolished more than 20 shacks, leaving about 100 people homeless.

The guards were acting on the orders of ward councillor Derrick Dimba.

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Press Release 4 from the Motala Heights Development Committee (21 August 2006)

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2007-03-09 14:02. Derek Dimba | Motala Heights | Motala Heights Development Committee | press_release

Monday, 21 August 2006
Press Release 4 from the Motala Heights Development Committee (affiliated to Abahlali baseMjondolo)

CORRUPTION AND ARMED INTIMIDATION AS MOTALA HEIGHTS EVICTIONS CRISIS DEEPENS

On Saturday 17 June 2006 Ward Councillor Derek Dimba arrived at the Motala Heights settlement in Pinetown with municipal officials and 5 car loads of municipal security guards to mark out shacks that would then be destroyed by the militarised police Land Invasions Unit. They had probably chosen the Youth Day weekend thinking that many people would be away at their rural homes. They were wrong. The community was able to mobilise quickly and see off this first threat.