To Lindiwe Sisulu
Minister of Housing,
PRETORIA

30 September 2007

Dear Ms Sisulu,

Outrage at the ANC Government's Housing Policies

We in Citizens Against Privatisation (CAP), Auckland, New Zealand, are appalled at the ongoing reactionary measures of your parliament, and especially your role against the housing of impoverished South African citizens.

Currently, we are aware of on-going struggles by 'shack dwellers' across the country - highlighted by this week¹s organised defensive actions in Sydenham, Durban (where two days ago police suppressed protest with water cannons, rubber bullets, stun grenades, baton charges and many arrests), Johannesburg (from the Protea South, Kliptown, Thembelihle, and Thembisa settlements), and particularly in the Joe Slovo 'informal settlement in Langa, Cape Town.