Category Archives: Kennedy Road

Daily Sun: Homes Go Up in Smoke!

http://dailysun.mobi/news/read/2998/homes-go-up-in-smoke

IT never rains but it pours for the residents of Kennedy Road squatter settlement, near Sydenham in Durban.

A few days ago they were trying to sort out a disaster caused by heavy rain.

Then on Sunday, more than 100 shacks were burned to ashes. Fifty people were injured and 400 spent the night squashed in the municipal halls.

The cause of the fire is not known but it is suspected that faulty electrical connections were involved.

One of the shack dwellers, Mlungisi Khumalo (22), told Daily Sun that he was sleeping in his house at about 11 am when he heard people screaming outside.

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Kennedy Road Burns Once Again

Sunday, 03 November 2013

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Kennedy Road Burns Once Again

On Tuesday the Isipingo Transit Camp was flooded once again. It is built on a flood plain and there is no drainage and so there are regular floods. The residents took to the streets and organised a road blockade in protest at the living conditions that have been forced on them against their will.

Our movement has rejected transit camps from the first moment that that they appeared and we have constantly called for them to abolished and for all people that have been forced into these inhuman places to be provided with decent housing as a matter of urgency. The municipality has now announced that they will not build any more transit camps and they have promised to house people in transit camps. Their decision to stop building transit camps is a victory that comes directly from our struggle. We welcome this victory but we do not see clear plans to provide decent housing to the 10 000 people who have been sentenced to the transit camps. Therefore our struggle against the transit camps continues and it will continue until every person forced into a transit camp has access to decent housing.

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Daily News: ‘Give us houses not meat’

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/give-us-houses-not-meat-mayor-1.1598490#.Um8t9PnI3UU

By BHEKI MBANJWA

'We want houses not meat'

Durban – Politicans are not welcome in Durban’s informal settlements until such time that the housing needs of the poor are addressed, Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers’ movement, has declared.

“The shack dwellers are sick and tired of the lies that we have been getting from our politicians and we have to send a message that they are not wanted in our areas,” said Bandile Mdlalose, the movement’s general secretary.

She was responding to questions after residents of Kennedy Road protested by blockading roads on Saturday over a visit to the settlement by eThekwini mayor James Nxumalo.

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Sunday Tribune: ‘We want houses not meat’

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/we-want-houses-not-meat-1.1598064#.Um31T_nI3UU

'We want houses not meat'

By MERVYN NAIDOO and AMANDA KHOZA

Durban – Durban mayor James Nxumalo’s delivery of meat parcels to the poor in eThekwini backfired on Saturday when angry residents started a fire in protest at his presence.

Nxumalo and his helpers, some riding in a four-ton truck laden with the beef parcels sponsored by a Turkish company, zipped through the city as part of a mayoral outreach programme.

First stop was the Kennedy Road informal settlement, before moving on to Sydenham, Amaoti, KwaMashu, Isipingo, Austerville, Chatsworth, and then ending off the outreach drive at Inchanga, Nxumalo’s home town.

Residents of Kennedy Road barricaded the roads and burned rubbish to vent their anger over the council’s failure to deliver houses.

“I don’t need meat – I need a house,” said Sandile Sebetha.

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UnFreedom Day in Durban

 

 




UnFeeedom Day 2013 in Durban

 

 

Click here to see the Isolezwe article on UnFreedom Day and here to see the report on ENCA.

Friday 26 April , 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA Press Statement

UnFreedom Day in Durban

Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA, a democratic and membership based organization, has held its UnFreedom Day event in Durban every year since 2006. This year UnFreedom Day will be held in Durban and in Cape Town.

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