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Abahlali baseMarikana Protest in Observatory on 25 May 2013

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AbahlaliBase Marikana protest in Observatory
Athenkosi Mvane
26 May 2013

On Saturday, Abahlali Base Marikana went to Observatory to protest over the City of Cape Town’s Open Streets initiative.

Abahlali said the Open Streets will please only a few people whilst having houses built will be a project that will be more beneficial to more people.

Cindy Ketane said that the City supports Open Streetsand sidelines the poor, because the poor are excluded.

The Open Street initiative aims to promote the use of roads for bicycles and roller skate.

Ketane said they were also protesting against the scourge of police taking their material and destroying their houses.

“The same city that is making some people happy is also making people suffer; other people do not know what is happening in Marikana, so they wanted to expose the problem they have with the City of Cape Town” Ketane added.

Click here to see some photographs of this protest.

ENCA: Shack dwellers say they won’t vote

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Durban – Abahlali Basemjondolo, the shack dwellers’ organisation in KwaZulu-Natal, are threatening to boycott the 2014 general election, if they do not have appropriate housing by then.

The organisation held a rally in Durban at the weekend to commemorate what they called “no freedom day”, while the rest of the country celebrated 19 years of democracy.

The shack dwellers said they were tired of living in shacks without electricity or water.

Abahlali Basemjondolo also said they were fed up with receiving food parcels during election campaigns in exchange for their vote, but no other help at any other time.

They want the 400,000 housing backlog in the eThekwini Municipality to be resolved before next year’s election.