Update: 15/01/2011 Zandile Mdletshe and the Kennedy Road ANC did not pitch up to the mass meeting on Wednesday. The new KRDC then sought and obtained a meeting with Yakoob Baig and Jackson Gumede who said that development projects had always been allocated through the area committee of the ANC but they agreed (clearly aware of the popular pressure and the collapse in any significant support for the Kennedy Road ANC) to let the Kennedy Road community decide. The new KRDC called another mass meeting the following evening and invited the police to attend it and to witness it. At that meeting it was decided that the project must stop pending a resolution to allow democratic decision making about this and other development projecets.
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ANC Intimidates Witness X, More Intimidation and More Killing in Kennedy Road
23 December 2010
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
ANC Intimidates Witness X, More Intimidation and More Killing in Kennedy Road
The attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement in September last year was followed by serious intimidation against the movement in the settlement. People were forced to denounce the movement, any support for the movement put people at serious risk and organising in the settlement had to go underground. Homes continued to be destroyed until July this year and people had to be able to show ANC cards to access food vouchers for senior citizens and social relief as well as the building materials that, after the struggle of our movement, are now made available to people after shack fires. Building material was even given to ANC members whose shacks hadn’t burnt. Death threats were made against numerous people including AbM leaders not living in Kennedy Road. These death threats were often issued in public, such as at the court appearances for the Kennedy 12 (who were at first the Kennedy 13).