Yesterday our movement filed an application to prevent any further evictions in our eKhenana Land Occupation in Cato Crest. The court adjourned this matter indefinitely until further information from both parties is gathered.

The Municipality urged the court to give them time to formulate their supplementary affidavit. Even though the interdict was not granted, we consider the court’s response to be valuable because while the matter is in court the Municipality is not allowed to continue with the evictions and the community is not allowed to continue to build more structures.   Continue reading →

Once again Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA will be going to court to prevent ongoing illegal and brutal evictions directed at an impoverished community by the eThekwini Municipality. This time the target of the Municipality’s attack is the eKhenana land occupation in Cato Crest.

In the past six months the notorious Anti Land Invasion Unit, with the support of the eThekwini Metro Police, has been regularly demolishing and burning down people’s homes in the eKhenana land occupation.  Continue reading →