A second post mortem will be conducted today on the body of little Jayden Khoza – who died during a police raid at Durban’s Foreman Road Informal Settlement.
eThekwini Municipality is currently looking at whether it would be possible to supply people in the Foreman Road Informal Settlement with electricity. Continue reading
31 May 2017
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement
Justice for Baby Jayden
On Monday the Foreman Road community in Clare Estate, Durban, came under serious police assault after a road blockade that had been organised earlier that morning. That protest was disruptive but it was also peaceful. Baby Jayden Khoza, two weeks old, lost his life during the brutal police assault on the community. The next day the headline on the front page of The Mercury said that baby Jayden had died during a protest. We wish to be clear: baby Jayden did not die during a protest. He was killed during a police assault on the Foreman Road community following a protest. Continue reading
DURBAN – A grieving mother, accompanied by dozens of neighbours walked the body of her dead two-week-old child into the Sydenham police station on Monday.
Residents of the Foreman Road informal settlement in Clare Estate claim that baby Jayden Khoza died during a police raid on the settlement on Monday.
Monday, 29 May 2017
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
A Baby has Been Killed During a Brutal Police Attack on the Foreman Road Settlement
A two week old baby, Jayden Khoza, is dead after a brutal police attack on the Foreman Road settlement in Clare Estate, Durban, this morning. Abahali baseMjondolo are now marching on the Sydenham police station with the body of the baby. Others have been injured and there was one arrest.
The comrades in the Foreman Road settlement organised a road blockade on Tuesday 23 May. They organised another blockade this morning, at 5:00 a.m. The police responded by attacking the settlement as a whole with fists, batons, rubber bullets and tear gas. Many shacks filled up with teargas. Children started crying, coughing and vomiting. Residents told the police that they were putting the children in grave danger. However the police continued the attack. Continue reading