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Fears of more service delivery protests
1 August 2009, 14:43
By VUYO MABANDLA

Protests could continue next week if the city authorities do not respond to a list of demands from a Khayelitsha community.

Simmering tensions in Khayelitsha's informal settlements were diffused two weeks after people marched to Mayor Dan Plato's office to hand over a list of demands for services.

The protesters laid down a two-week deadline but by yesterday Plato had not responded. If he misses Monday's deadline residents from parts of Khayelitsha and Macassar Village nearby say they will take to the streets.

http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5099156

Pain and courage

July 26, 2009 Edition 1

Rough Aunties and A Place in the City are two documentaries that are showing at this year's film festival.

They are two very different films about the strength and bravery of two different groups of people, but both films take place in eThekwini, and chronicle the pain and suffering of a broken society in which the state has failed dismally to fulfil its role as protector and guardian of its citizens.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=vn20090725062729698C847631

'Rivalry and negligence' to blame
25 July 2009, 08:47

By Vuyo Mabandla

Residents in Cape Town's informal settlements say political rivalry and negligence by leaders over a number of years, - and not direct political influence - are behind the spate of violent protests in the city in the past few weeks.

Residents of QQ section in Site B, Khayelitsha, said provincial, municipal and local leaders dating to former mayor Nomaindia Mfeketho's time in office, had done nothing but "fight over positions and not attend (to) the people's troubles".

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5091356

Khayelitsha residents will protest 'until Jesus comes'

July 21, 2009 Edition 1

ANÉL LEWIS

DISGRUNTLED residents of 15 informal settlements in Khayelitsha say they will protest "until Jesus comes" if the City of Cape Town does not respond to their demands to be relocated to sites with better living conditions.

And they have threatened to continue with service delivery protests.

Mthobeli Qona of informal housing lobby group Abahlali baseMjondolo said protesters would "make Khayelitsha and the city ungovernable" until the city council responded.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=124&art_id=vn20090721115218488C196931

'Meet our service delivery demands, Plato'

July 21 2009 at 01:33PM

By Francis Hweshe

Disgruntled informal settlement residents have given mayor Dan Plato two weeks to respond to their service delivery demands.

The residents, drawn from various communities in Khayelitsha and Macassar Village, on Monday marched from Keizersgracht Street to the City of Cape Town to demand, among other things, relocation to higher ground, as well as better housing and serviced land.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3045&art_id=vn20080804052925829C145416

Eight killed as fires raze settlements

August 04 2008 at 07:31AM

By Gugu Mbonambi

Eight people, including several children, died and dozens were left homeless after fires swept through two shack settlements in Durban at the weekend.

Ward 31 councillor Gloria Borman said five people, who had been locked in a shack and were unable to get out, were burnt beyond recognition.

http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4540242

Front Page
Rats plague community

August 03, 2008 Edition 3

Rat poison was put down at the Kennedy Road informal settlement this week by health authorities, but residents are not expecting the rat plague to end.

Residents say the eThekwini health department had used poison previously but nothing had changed, and rats were now bigger and meaner.

The settlement was in the news recently after two-month-old Wandile Cikwayo's hand was gnawed by a rat. He is in a critical condition in Addington Hospital. Earlier this year a 4-month-old baby was bitten on the head by a rat. He later died from his wounds as his parents did not have money to take him to hospital and were waiting for the Clare Estate Clinic to open on the Monday.

As in New Orleans, as in Pietermartizburg a flood, it seems that any sort will do, becomes the excuse to expel the poor from the city (this time via a spell in tents in a bourgeois park.)

http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4225627

Sunday Tribune
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Berea park families to 'move by Easter'

January 27, 2008 Edition 1

Chris Makhaye

BUSISIWE Masikane is one of more than 85 people who have been living in a tent in a park on Berea's Ridge Road.