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Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sat, 2010-02-06 12:39. Barefoot Workshops | Blikkiesdorp | Clementine Wallace | Colton Margus | Nora Connor | symphony way | transit camps | video | VimeoAEC: 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.
AEC: Symphony Way Granted Temporary Reprieve; Eviction Postponed in High Court
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2009-03-23 09:46. Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign | press_update | symphony way | symphony way occupationDelft Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
20 March, 2009 - For Immediate Release
Symphony Way Granted Temporary Reprieve; Eviction Postponed in High Court
Left over from the protest outside the Cape High Court...
Residents of Symphony Way won a temporary reprieve from forcible eviction in the Cape High Court today.
Families gathered on the steps of the court, carrying signs that read: “We need houses for our kids,” and “Give us what is rightfully ours!!! Houses!!!”
AEC: Second Eviction Application for the Delft Symphony Way Residents
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2009-03-20 11:30. court | delft | Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign | eviction | symphony wayDelft Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
19 March, 2009
We, the Delft Symphony Residents received an application of eviction from the City of Cape Town. We must appear in the High Court on the 20th of March of 2009 at 10h00. On the 9th of March of 2009 we went to advocates in town, Cliffe, Dekke, Hofmeyr, Number 11, Buitengracht Street, Cape Town, and to the Cape High Court to hand in our notice of intention to defend. We are disgusted that we are about to be evicted for the second time and political parties are trying to use us for their own good. The state and parastatals are playing games with our children’s future and our dignity as South African citizens.
AEC: Symphony Way residents commemorate 1 year on the road
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2009-02-19 07:34. Delft Anti-Eviction Campaign | protest | symphony way | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignDelft Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
19th of February 2009 - For Immediate Release
Symphony Way residents commemorate 1 year on the road
Today, the residents of Symphony Way will be commemorating last years evictions on the 19th of February 2008. We have now lived a full year on Symphony Way and have, in protest, blocked traffic on this major road the entire time. Residents have nowhere else to go and refused to go to Blikkiesdorp TRA which they see as a refugee camp. This may be the longest and most difficult protest undertaken by any community in the history of South Africa.
M&G: Cape Town's clean-up
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2010-05-21 15:49. 2010 Fifa World Cup | Blikkiesdorp | Gcina Ntsaluba | Jane Roberts | Mail & Guardian | symphony way | transit campshttp://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-05-21-cape-towns-cleanup
Cape Town's clean-up
GCINA NTSALUBA - May 21 2010 00:00
Tensions are running high in Cape Town over the city's apparent relocation of poor and homeless people to Blikkiesdorp on the Cape Flats -- an attempt, critics charge, to hide grim reality from visiting World Cup fans.
Blikkiesdorp was built by city authorities in Delft on the Cape Flats in 2008 and has since mushroomed. Its hundreds of corrugated-iron structures house about 3 000 people.
Symphony Way (video)
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-11-17 12:01. symphony way | symphony way occupation | video | Western Cape Anti-Eviction CampaignCape Times: Delft squatters shifted to Blikkiesdorp
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2009-10-28 12:57. Cape Times | legal evictions | Quinton Mtyala | symphony way | transit campshttp://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5218581
'on symphony way we were a strong, respectful community... i'm moving with a heavy heart'
Delft squatters shifted to Blikkiesdorp
October 27, 2009 Edition 1
Quinton Mtyala
HAVING been defiant for months, 23 of 127 families have relented and yesterday moved from pavement shelters in Symphony Way, Delft, to a notorious temporary resettlement area dubbed Blikkiesdorp.
Most expressed their fear at what awaited them at the row upon row of single-roomed corrugated iron shacks without water or electricity.
Cape Argus: 'We won't go to Blikkiesdorp'
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sat, 2009-10-10 11:56. Blikkiesdorp | Cape Argus | eviction | Fatima Schroeder | Kowthat Solomons | symphony way | transit campshttp://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5195070
'We won't go to Blikkiesdorp'
Symphony Way safer, say residents
FATIMA SCHROEDER and KOWTHAR SOLOMONS Staff Reporters
THE CONTROVERSIAL pavement-dwellers in Symphony Way in Delft got their marching orders from the Cape High Court, which ordered them to relocate to temporary accommodation in Blikkiesdorp.
However, the residents say that while they are willing to move, they will not move to “that dump”.The order, which affects more than 100 families, gives them until next Thursday to “engage meaningfully” with the City of Cape Town on the dates of the relocation, and to set up a timetable for the relocation process.
Sowetan: We’d rather die than move away
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sat, 2009-10-10 11:38. Anna Majavu | Blikkies Dorp | symphony way | The | transit campshttp://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1075866
We’d rather die than move away
08 October 2009
Anna Majavu
Residents fight bid to relocate them
“WE are prepared to die rather than be moved to the city of Cape Town’s temporary relocation area.”
These are the words of a group of about 400 people who yesterday appeared in the Western Cape high court fighting off a city bid to move them to Blikkiesdorp.
The temporary relocation area with its rows of corrugated iron one-roomed “houses” has been nicknamed Blikkiesdorp, or “Tin Can Town” by the 5000 people who currently live there.
