Scores of frustrated Enkanini residents from Cato Crest informal settlement marched to the Human Settlements office in Durban on Friday demanding to be included in the City’s development projects. Continue reading
12 September 2018 By Christopher Clark and Nomfundo Xolo
Phumzile Mkhize says she has been kept in the dark about the investigation into her husband’s murder. All photos: Samantha Reinders
Just metres from 28-year-old Phumzile Mkhize’s shack, perched on a steep hillside in the Durban informal settlement of eKukhanyeni, two bullet holes mark the wall of a local spaza shop where her late husband S’fiso Ngcobo was shot dead while buying cool drinks on 23 May. Continue reading
5 September 2018 By Christopher Clark and Nomfundo Xolo
Abahlali members sing at an August general meeting in Durban. All photos: Samantha Reinders
On a hazy Sunday morning in August, George Bonono, KwaZulu-Natal chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers’ movement, walks briskly through downtown Durban to attend the group’s monthly general meeting in a local community hall. Continue reading
Shack dwellers in Cato Manor, Durban, say evictions and demolitions carried out by the eThekwini Municipality from Saturday to Monday left many homeless and injured. They accuse the municipal land invasion unit of brutality, theft and acting illegally. Continue reading
http://www.theconmag.co.za/2014/06/02/clermont-up-in-flames/
Under Siege in Clermont
Fred Kockott, Nomfundo Xolo and Slindile Jiyane
A ministerial housing project has gone awry in Clermont, Durban. Fifteen families who refuse to destroy their homes and move into a transit camp to make way for planned developments are under siege. Among families resisting relocation are the Mlandus. Arsonists attempted to petrol-bomb their home early Friday morning, but only a rock and the burning rag – the fuse of the “bomb” – penetrated through the windows. The bottle dropped outside.
“I was awoken around 2am by my daughter’s loud scream – ‘Vukani ma, nibaleke!’ (Wake up, ma. We must run),” said Nompumelelo Mlandu. “I saw a flame outside my window. I rushed to grab my grandson and got out the house… I am still shaken, but in greater fear of what’s to come next,” said Mlandu. “If something is not done soon, we are all going to die burning in our sleep.”