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Immigrants detained: ‘Don’t waste your energy on law-abiding people’
29 Oct 2008
Bongani Hans

A GROUP of South African women and men vented their anger at police at
Howick police station following the arrest of more than 30 immigrants,
apparently after their immigration permits had expired.

The immigrants were arrested on Friday evening in Howick West, where
they were renting rooms as individuals or in groups.

There have been no attacks or harassment of any sort in any of the settlements affiliated to Abahlali or with an Abahlali branch. (The movement has members in Durban, Pinetown, Tongaat & Pietermaritzburg.)

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Foreigners attacked in PMB
26 May 2008

Bongani Hans

REPORTS of sporadic attacks on foreign nationals have surfaced in
Pietermaritzburg. The past weekend saw property set alight and a
Zimbabwean national leaving Imbali, covered in blood.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, a shack in the city centre
occupied by a Congolese man was burnt down. The occupant was threatened

There has been a long and brave struggle in the Ash Road settlement against forced removal to the notorious peripheral human dumping ground of France - Pietermaritzburg's equivalent of Durban's Park Gate and Cape Town's Delft. Now the state has finally conceded defeat on this matter. This is a major victory. See the Witness Echo report attached below in pdf. There will be more details on this break through on this site soon.