Francis Hweshe

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

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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.

Cape Argus: Backyard dwellers demand change

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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.

Cape Argus: Khayelitsha residents to be briefed on solutions for service delivery

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

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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.

Cape Argus: 'Meet our service delivery demands, Plato'

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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.

Cape Argus: Mayor pleads for patience on relocation

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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.

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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.

Cape Argus: Mayor pleads for patience on relocation

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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.

Cape Argus: Protest is 'the only way to be heard'

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Protest is 'the only way to be heard'

July 16, 2009 Edition 1

FRANCIS HWESHE and ASHLEIGH BEDDOW

Disgruntled with their living conditions, Khayelitsha residents say that resorting to violent protest is the only way they will force the government to deliver on basic services.

Yesterday, residents of QQ Section in Site B entered their second day of protest action, in which they clashed with the police and burned tyres and rubbish in Lansdowne Road.

Cape Argus: Somali traders are welcome in Gugs, says community

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This is a major break through by the AEC.

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Somali traders are welcome in Gugs, says community

Somali traders are welcome in Gugs, says community

June 16, 2009 Edition 1

Francis Hweshe

TENSIONS between South African and Somalian shopkeepers in Guguletu have eased, at least temporarily.

Local traders apologised to their foreign counterparts after a letter purportedly written on behalf of a group calling itself the Gugulethu Business Forum called for Somali shopkeepers to pack up and and leave the area within seven days.

Cape Argus: Tension brewing in townships over foreigners

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une 01, 2009 Edition 1
Francis Hweshe – Cape Argus

TENSION is brewing in townships over foreign-owned shops, with one local businessman threatening violence, while another slammed government for causing the conflict.
Anti-Eviction Campaign hosts public meeting on root causes of the xenophobic crisis

Anti-Eviction Campaign hosts public meeting on root causes of the xenophobic crisis - photo by AEC

And in the hope of neutralising what they fear is mounting hostility to foreigners from elsewhere in Africa, Anti-Eviction campaign activists in Guguletu have launched a dialogue with local businesses.

Cape Argus: Retreat, mayor says to invaders

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Retreat, mayor says to invaders
Land is earmarked for low-cost housing

May 22, 2009 Edition 1

Francis Hweshe

THE defiant backyard dwellers who are continuing to illegally occupy a piece of land in Macassar should retreat, Mayor Dan Plato said.

Tension has grown over the past three days, with the protesting group not backing down on its intention of permanently occupying land close to the N2.

Yesterday Plato said the protesters should stay away from the city-owned land, which had been budgeted for and earmarked for 2000 housing units.

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