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Angry residents attack off-duty cop
'We'd rather die than live here'

August 17, 2009 Edition 1

KOWTHAR SOLOMONS and FRANCIS HWESHE

AN OFF-duty policeman who was attacked and beaten over the head with a large rock by protesting Khayelitsha residents is in a serious but stable condition in hospital, police said this morning.

The officer, whose name police have declined to release, was attacked when he tried to drive through a barricade erected by residents of BT Section, Site C, Khayelitsha yesterday.

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Backyard dwellers demand change

August 11 2009 at 01:18PM

By Francis Hweshe

Angry backyard dwellers in Khayelitsha's Mandela Park - who burnt tyres in the streets of their neighbourhood - have given the provincial housing department a week to address their concerns or they will illegally occupy empty housing units in the area.

The residents, who protested there on Monday as police and private security guards kept a close watch, say they are at their wits' end and want action now.

The City's entirely technocratic, authoritarian and inadequate response to the AbM protests is online here.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5111801

Khayelitsha residents to be briefed on solutions for service delivery

August 04, 2009 Edition 1

Francis Hweshe

THE CITY is to meet Khayelitsha residents next week to tell them what efforts have been made to address their concerns since the service delivery protests there two weeks ago.

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'Meet our service delivery demands, Plato'

July 21 2009 at 01:33PM

By Francis Hweshe

Disgruntled informal settlement residents have given mayor Dan Plato two weeks to respond to their service delivery demands.

The residents, drawn from various communities in Khayelitsha and Macassar Village, on Monday marched from Keizersgracht Street to the City of Cape Town to demand, among other things, relocation to higher ground, as well as better housing and serviced land.

The City has been promising to move QQ residents to Bardale for almost a decade. They are tired of sitting back and being patient while their homes are flooded.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5087181

July 17, 2009 Edition 1
Francis Hweshe – Cape Argus

SOME of the residents of the flooded QQ informal settlement in Khayelitsha who staged fierce service delivery protests earlier this week will only be relocated to dry land next year, says Mayor Dan Plato.

Plato said yesterday that about 300 families from the QQ and RR sections in Site B would be moved to the Bardale temporary relocation area next October.