Friday 22 February 2019
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
ANC undermine High Court interdict
When the eKhenana land occupation was organised last year the ANC ward councillor in ward 101, Mzimuni Ngiba, was very adamant that it will not be a success.
Ngiba even organised members of the local ANC Branch Executive Committee to unlawfully demolish people’s homes. They were heavily armed and fired shots in the air to scare the people away. Continue reading
Ndabo Mzimela, GroundUp
Cato Manor has a long history of struggle and repression. Women have often been in the forefront of these struggles. This history is well known in Durban. Many families from KwaMashu have roots in Cato Manor. KwaMashu was created to house some of the people forcibly removed from Cato Manor under the Group Areas Act. They were taken from land in the city where they had some autonomy and moved out of the city to a segregated township under strict control of the apartheid state. Continue reading
26 September 2014
10:29
The ANC is Attacking the Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Crest
The Land Invasions Unit has retreated.
The occupation is now under attack by the local ANC. ANC members led by Cllr Mzi Ngiba and his BEC have already demolished around 25 shacks.
An ANC member has attacked Nomvete with a spade. We are waiting for the ambulance to rush her to hospital.
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17 September 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
ANC Thuggery Undermines the Rule of Law Once Again
Yesterday we occupied the centre of Durban in our thousands. After our march some of us went to court, once again, for the Cato Crest matter. We have won a number of orders from the High Court interdicting the eThekwini Municipality from illegally evicting our members from the Marikana land occupation at Cato Crest. However the Municipality has just ignored these court orders. The court eventually decided to order various officials to appear before the court to explain why they should not be arrested. But even the agreement made to stop the evictions, which have been violent, while the Municipality prepared its case, was violated. While we were in court threats were made against us and guns were openly passed around outside the court. Two activists have already been assassinated in Cato Crests and death threats have to be taken seriously.
02 September 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
We Have Secured Another Court Interdict in Defence of Cato Crest
Abahlali baseMjondolo has just secured another interdict in the Durban High Court against the eThekwini Municipality.
At around 13:00 p.m. today around 80 municipal police officers and members of the Land Invasions Unit arrived in Cato Crest, Ward 101, escorted by the local Councillor, Mzimuni Ngiba and his BEC (Branch Executive Committee of the ANC). They attacked our comrades and demolished their shacks leaving them homeless. They demolished the shacks even though there is a court order preventing them from demolishing the shacks.