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Constitutional Court Demonstration Against Joe Slovo Eviction - 21 August

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-08-18 08:34. Joe Slovo Task Team | slovo

Video footage from the Cape Town High Court demonstration earlier in the year - from SACSIS

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Solidarity: Widely distributed & read in AbM branches. Just as Izwe Labampofu was read in Cape Town

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2007-10-10 14:20. slovo

Solidarity: Widely distributed & read in AbM branches. Just as Izwe Labampofu was read in Cape Town

PDF copies of the pages are attached below.

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N2 Gateway and the Joe Slovo informal settlement: the new Crossroads?

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sun, 2007-09-16 16:49. Martin Legassick | newspaper_article | slovo | Sunday Argus

Updates are being added below - scroll down to see them or click here to see the Joe Slovo solidarity digital archive.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=3131

Since the launch in 2004 of N2 Gateway, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s pet ‘flagship’ project has run into problem after problem: delayed delivery, cost over-runs, above all lack of consultation. In their 2004-5 report the Development Action Group, an NGO, wrote “The top-down approach in the N2 project undermines its overall sustainability… The casual, continued and increasing practice of excluding people from decision-making about development processes that directly affect their lives is an obstacle that communities are unlikely to tolerate for much longer.”

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Bay State Banner: South Africans protest mass eviction order in court

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.

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Joe Slovo Residents to overnight in Symphony Way, in solidarity with Delft Pavement Dwellers

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2008-08-29 11:34. delft | slovo | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Press Alert – For Immediate Release

Thursday, 28 July 2008

Joe Slovo Residents to overnight in Symphony Way, in solidarity with Delft Pavement Dwellers

Date: Saturday, 30 August 2008
Time: 16h00
Location: Symphony Way, Delft

Delft – Following their trip to Johannesburg and attendance at the SA Constitutional Court hearing last week, residents of the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa, Cape Town will be visiting the evicted residents of the N2 Gateway Houses along Symphony Way in Delft this Saturday. In addition to sharing the lessons of their struggle against forced relocation to the city's Temporary Relocation Areasin Delft, Joe Slovo residents will also spend the night in the shacks along Symphony Way as a demonstration of solidarity.

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M&G: 'It's our duty not to be silent'

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sun, 2008-08-24 16:25. law | Mail & Guardian | Pearlie Joubert | slovo

For pictures click here.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-08-24-its-our-duty-not-to-be-silent

News | National | Land & Housing
'It's our duty not to be silent'
PEARLIE JOUBERT | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Aug 24 2008 06:00

After 15 years of fighting with government and the Cape Town municipality about their right to live in Langa, the Joe Slovo community finally had their day in the Constitutional Court this week.

Opposing their right to continue living in Cape Town's Langa township -- earmarked for housing development -- were Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, government-appointed housing agency Thubelisha Homes, former Western Cape housing minister Richard Dyantyi and the city of Cape Town.

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