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Slum dwellers’ body wants Langa to lead attack probe

WILSON JOHWA
Published: 2009/11/05 06:24:08 AM

FORMER chief justice Pius Langa is among the eminent persons a slum dwellers’ association would like to lead an independent inquiry into the attack on a Durban informal settlement in which two people were killed six weeks ago.

Scores of people were also injured on September 26 when about 40 armed men struck at the Kennedy Road informal settlement, which is associated with Abahlali baseMjondolo, a body claiming a membership of 50000 in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape. The incident was thought to be politically motivated.

Abahlali baseMjondolo is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-national movement that takes the position that everyone who lives in the shacks is from the shacks. The movement has organised in solidarity with Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe and in South Africa and welcomes Zimbabwean members. This aspect of the movement needs to be given wider recognition given the horrific upsurge in xenophobia sweeping the country.

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