Preview of the Dok-Werk Fikmkooperative documentary When the Mountain Meets Its Shadow which will be release in 2010.
Preview - Part 1
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
When the Mountain Meets its Shadow
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-11-17 12:05. Ashraf Cassiem | Dok-Werk Filmkooperative | Mcedisi Twalo | video | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign | When the Mountain Meets its ShadowHundreds protested yesterday in Mandela Park
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-11-12 09:58. mandela park | protest | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignAnti-Eviction Press Release
On behalf of Mandela Park
Thursday 12 November 2009
Hundreds protested yesterday in Mandela Park after assault by Chippa security guards. Demonstrations to continue…
Click here for some photos of last night’s mass protest.
Yesterday morning, two Mandela Park residents were assaulted by four Chippa security guards at the instruction of the local SANCO chairperson. The two residents along with 7 witnesses went to the police station to lay a charge against the guards. As retribution, the local SANCO chairperson laid a counter charge of intimidation against one of the residents who he ordered to be assaulted – backyarder Khaya Xintolo. Khaya was then arrested and kept in police custody for more than 11 hours even though the detective himself admitted that there was no case against Khaya.
Police shoot residents in peaceful AEC protest against Gugs Mall
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-10-29 15:21. gugulethu | Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign | Guguletu Square Mall | police | protest | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignGugulethu AEC Press Alert
29 October 2009 at 15h30
Police shoot residents in peaceful AEC protest against Gugs Mall
The Gugulethu police interrupted a peaceful protest by the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign this afternoon. Without warning residents at all, they shot at us with rubber bullets injuring dozens and arresting many others.
The much of the crowd was made up of old women and there were a lot of children also present. A 17 year old lady was shot in the face by the police and is now seriously injured and at the hospital.
At the moment we are not sure how many people have been shot and arrested. We do know, however, that today the police attempted to illegally ban the public protest which has been going on since Monday. From Monday through Wednesday, the police behaved respectuflly and helped escort us when we marched towards the mall. Today, they would not let us march. So a delegation of AEC activists went today to the Civic Centre in Cape Town to get a permit but we were prevented by police from entering the Civic Centre.
The City of Cape Town is Politicising Flood Aid & Failing to Deal with the Structural Issues
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-07-16 09:37. floods | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignAnti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
Thursday 16 July, 2009
More than ten Cape Flats informal settlements hardest hit by last week's floods did not receive any emergency assistance at all from the City of Cape Town or the Provincial Government. This include Tambo Square, Barcelona, New Rest and Gxa Gxa Square in the Gugulethu area. In addition to this, the city continues to ignore the plight of vulnerable backyard dwellers whose homes have been flooded.
Many AEC communities as well as communities other poor settlements are now in dire straights as a result of recent floods. In Khayelitsha, spurred on by massive floods in their communities, many Abahlali baseMjondolo settlements have closed down Landsdowne Road in protest against the government's refusal to provide the poor with land or housing.
N2 Gateway flats to March on Zille to demand community management and acceptable rents – Tuesday
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2009-06-29 17:43. n2 gateway | protest | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignAEC Press Release
On behalf of the N2 Gateway Phase 1 Flats (also known as Joe Slovo Phase 1)
Event: Residents of the N2 Gateway flats will march on Helen Zille to demand radical changes in the project’s management and normalization of rents
When: 11h00 on 30 June 2009
Where: from Keizersgracht to the provincial office of Helen Zille
Contact: Luthando 079 896 6126 at and Jimmy at 073 158 4835
NO TO EXORBITANT RENTS AT N2 GATEWAY! NORMALISE OUR RENTS!
NO TO MANAGEMENT FROM JOHANNESBURG! VOETSAK THUBELISHA!
WE WANT LOCAL MANAGEMENT UNDER OUR CONTROL!
Since we moved into the N2 Gateway flats we have been very unhappy. The flats were very poorly constructed and the rents were much higher than we had been told when we applied for the flats. We pay up to R1050 in rent for defective flats. That is what people paying for bond houses pay, but we are not buying our houses, but only renting them for life! Because of this, we have been on rent boycott for two years. We have raised these issues time and again with Lindiwe Sisulu, Richard Dyantyi, and the Thubelisha management but our complaints have fallen on deaf ears.
AEC: Symphony Way wins reprieve despite City’s efforts to undermine our right to a fair trial
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-06-09 18:59. court | occupation | symphony way | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignSymphony Way wins reprieve despite City’s efforts to undermine our right to a fair trial
9 June 2009
The Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers have won their first battle in the quest for adequate decent public housing.
We have said publicly, over and over again, that: we do not want to occupy Symphony Way. We will gladly move if we are permitted to move to houses which are safe, clean, and adequate to our families’ needs.
Open Letter from the AEC to US Activists
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-04-09 12:33. evictions | open letter | solidarity | The Nation | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaignhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20090420/western_cape
April 7, 2009
The Nation
An Open Letter from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa to US Activists
To: All poor Americans and their communities in resistance
The privatization of land–a public resource for all that has now become a false commodity–was the original sin, the original cause of this financial crisis. With the privatization of land comes the dispossession of people from their land which was held in common by communities. With the privatization of land comes the privatization of everything else, because once land can be bought and sold, almost anything else can eventually be bought and sold.
AEC: City attempting to evict Mitchell's Plain traders
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2009-01-19 08:11. street traders | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaignhttp://antieviction.org.za/2009/01/18/city-attempting-to-evict-mitchells-plain-traders/
Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
Monday 19 January, 2009 - For Immediate Release
The City of Cape Town has been attempting to evict traders and hawkers from Town Centre in Mitchell's Plain for years. The City refuses to consult with the actual traders and but instead deals with an undemocratic front organisation called the Mitchell's Plain United Hawkers Forum that tows the City's line on every issue. A few months ago, the City passed a new by-law which allowed for the eviction of hawkers and traders from Town Centre which is seen as a blight on the 'real businesses' such as Shoprite, Pick n' Pay and other big business chains.
AEC: Good news, bad news - a carrot and some shotguns...
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2008-10-30 08:44. press_update | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignA few minutes after receiving news that they qualify for a housing subsidy, Symphony Way residents get terrorised by the police - again!
Good news, bad news - a carrot and some shotguns...
AEC: No More Fires! No More Evictions! The Poor Assert their Right to the City
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-09-22 16:35. fire | Foreman Road | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignUpdate: Please note that after vigorous protest at the arrival of bulldozers on the site of the fire without consultation the City agreed to allow Foreman Road residents to decide whether they wanted to rebuild themselves or stay in an on site transit camp.
