Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Trial Date Set for the Ridge View Twelve
Today members from the Ridge View Abahlali baseMjondolo branch had to return to the Durban Magistrate’s court following the arrest of 12 comrades after the occupation of the Ridge View flats on the 31 December 2014.
It would be remembered that many of them were displaced in 2013 during a mass eviction, at gun point, of more than three hundred families. The twelve who were arrested during the occupation were charged with trespasses, malicious damage to property and contravening a court order. They have since been going in and out courts. Today the matter was adjourned for trial on the 30 and 31 July 2014.