Category Archives: Isipingo

Illegal Evictions in Isipingo, All Criminal Charges Dismissed Against the Ridgeview Twelve

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

 

Illegal Evictions in Isipingo, All Criminal Charges Dismissed Against the Ridgeview Twelve

 

1. Evictions in the Uganda Settlement

Yesterday the notorious eThekwini Municipal Land Invasion Unit evicted seven families in the Uganda settlement near Isipingo in the South of Durban. As always the Municipality had no court order and therefore this was an illegal attack on the residents.

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Road Blockade now on in iSiphingo

7 March 2014

Abahlali baseMjondolo Statement

 

Road Blockade now on in iSiphingo

Residents of the iSiphingo transit camps are currently engaged in a road blockade. Transit camps are never acceptable. We are human beings not animals. Recently this camp has been flooded again after the rains. Residents have diseases like TB and asthma due to the living conditions.

In September the MEC promised, in public, that they would be moved to Cornubia. Yet they are still in the transit camp and have heard nothing more about the MEC's promise.

This is a protest at broken promises and it is a protest at living conditions that no human being can accept.

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Daily News: Isipingo residents sick of squalor

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/isipingo-residents-sick-of-squalor-1.1600216#.UnY5WvnI3UU

by Aphiwe Ngwenya

Durban – Residents of the Isipingo transit camp say they are fed up with empty promises by municipal officials that they would be relocated to housing projects elsewhere in the city.

As the heavy rains continued to flood their homes this week, residents protested on the main road, burning tyres.

The camp is built in a flood plain and with little in the way of a drainage system, flooding is frequent occurrence.

Stagnant water lies in pools around the camp, a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Here and there rocks, planks and bricks have been placed to create stepping stones around the camp.

Unemployed mother-of-three, Meshi Kesram, 36, said her home had been flooded numerous times in the five years she had been at the transit camp. On the worst occasion the flood water was over one metre high.

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Road Blockade in Isipingo Yesterday

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Road Blockade in Isipingo Yesterday

The Isipingo transit camp was badly flooded during the recent rains. It is built in a dangerous area and there is no drainage. It is not fit for human habitation.

Yesterday a road blockade was organised in protest at:

–       The flood and the inhuman conditions in the transit camp

–       The failure to honour to the promise, made more than a week ago, to start moving people out of the transit camp within a week

–       The attempt to silence us with lies on one hand and repression on the other hand

One person was arrested on the blockade but she was later released without being charged.

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Abayizwa eyokuyiswa eMkhomazi

http://www.iol.co.za/isolezwe/abayizwa-eyokuyiswa-emkhomazi-1.1586432#.Uk2vWIbI2VJ

 

Abayizwa eyokuyiswa eMkhomazi

By MNCEDISI GOGE

BATHI ngeke balubhade endaweni “yasemakhaya” eMkhomazi abantu abahlala ezindlini ezibizwa ngoLindela eSiphingo, yingakho besazoqhubeka nokuvala imigwaqo bashise amathayi.

Laba bantu bathi sebehlale iminyaka emihlanu kule ndawo njengoba uMasipala weTheku wabasusa eMlazi ngoba ufuna ukwakha inxanxathela yezitolo nenkundla yezemidlalo.

Bathi ngeke bayeke ukuvala umgwaqo ngamathayi njengoba bephinde bakususa lokho izolo ekuseni, kwaphoqeleka ukuthi abantu abanqamula kuwona basebenzise eminye imizila.

Laba bantu babehlaliswe kule ndawo ngethemba lokuthi bazokwakhelwa izindlu zomxhaso kodwa uma sekumele bayiswe lapho belungiselelwe khona indawo eMkhomazi, bashaya phansi ngonyawo bathi kukude neTheku.

UNksz Thulisile Nala (31) osekomitini laBahlali baseMjomdolo, uthe ngeke baye lapho kuthiwa abaye khona ngoba kusemakhaya.

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