Paddy Harper, Mail & Guardian
None of the residents of Barcelona 2, an eThekwini municipality transit camp in Lamontville in South Durban, wants to be there. Continue reading
Not wanted here, there or anywhere
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Court allows Durban evictees to return to their homes
Lamontville Transit Camp residents were evicted on Friday by the City of eThekwini
Residents of Lamontville Transit Camp were evicted by the City of eThekwini’s Security Management Unit and the Department of Human Settlements, in Lamontville South of Durban on Friday. The Durban High Court allowed them to return in a court ruling on Monday. Photo: Rethabile Phakisi for New Frame Continue reading
Violent and Illegal Eviction Underway at the Barcelona 2 Transit Camp, Lamontville
Friday, 15 June 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Violent and Illegal Eviction Underway at the Barcelona 2 Transit Camp, Lamontville
Mayor Zandile Gumede has started her ‘dealing’ with Abahlali
This morning at around 10:00 a.m. the Anti-Land Invasion Unit, accompanied by heavily armed security guards, attacked the Barcelona 2 ‘Transit Camp’ in Lamontville. It is a short walk from where Sibonelo Mpeku, our chairperson in the Sisonke Village land occupation, was kidnapped and murdered on 19 November last year. Continue reading
Back to the Durban High Court
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Back to the Durban High Court
Following several brutal and unlawful evictions at a gun point by the eThekwini Municipal Land Invasion Unit in Cato Crest (Marikana land occupation) and Lamontville (Sisonke Village) Abahlali baseMjondolo won several court interdicts against the Municipality. Each and every time we secured an interdict, or an undertaking from the Municipality to cease its illegal behaviour, the interdicts and undertakings were ignored and the Municipality continued with their violent and unlawful evictions. It is clear that the eThekwini Municipality considers itself to be above the law and impoverished black people to be beneath the law. Continue reading
Illegal Evictions in Madlala Village, Lamontville
20 June 2014
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Illegal Evictions in Madlala Village, Lamontville
Despite the latest Constitutional Court ruling on the 6th of June which is in favour of the poor people of the shack settlement known as Madlala Village in Lamontville, Durban, the illegal demolishing of shacks still continues. This morning at about 09:00 the eThekwini Municipality with its implementing agents was busy demolishing shacks in Madlala village, as a result 70 (seventy) shacks were demolished leaving hundreds of people homeless in the harsh conditions of the winter season.
When the demolishing team arrived in Madlala village the shack dwellers there asked if there was a court order granting the right to the eThekwini Municipality to destroy their homes. One respondent from the demolishing team responded by saying there is none and furthermore he said that they are aware of the recent Constitutional Court ruling but that they were working according to the ward councillor’s instructions to demolish these homes.