Mzonke Poni
Chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape
073 2562 036
www.khayelitshastruggles.com

Attention: Honourable Mayor, Patricia de Lille

We would like to invite you to attend and address our general meeting that
will take place on the 23rd July 2011 at khayelithsa (we will confirm the
venue once you indicate your availability).

Mainly we would like you to address the following concerns:

1. The city’s intervention strategy for floods victims (mainly under your
current administration) – for the past 17 years after so called democracy
people residing within informal settlement have been the victim of floods
and all the previous mayor’s of city of Cape Town including arrogant
Noma-India Mfeketo who was the failure and Helen Zille failed to address
this issue, instead they have decided to turn worst living conditions of our
people into a charity case by providing flood victims with dirty blankets
and soup.

2. The mandate of Anti-Land Invasion Unit (under your current
administration) and money spent on keeping the unit active: – We are much
concerned with this Helen Zille initiative of anti-land invasion unit, we
feel it is a waste of tax payer’s money (10 million rand allocated for this
unit per annum) which would have been spent wisely on delivering quality
level of services to the poor not open air toilets. As organization we
have witness many unconstitutional acts by this unit where they have been
demolishing people’s structure without any order from the court and such act
is inconsistent with section 26 of our constitution and the PIE Act.

3. Water cut off – For the past two years many poor families within the city
of cape town have been the victim of water cut offs by the city of cape town
and we are also much concerned about such act from the city of cape town
because water is life and it is the responsibility of city of Cape Town to
provide everyone at least with sufficient water per day.

Lastly but not least we are much disappointed on your will not to engage
with community based organizations, various community based organizations
including Abahlali baseMjondolo, Anti-Eviction Campaign, Communities for
social change, Mandela Park backyarders and other communities invited you to
address their meeting which was supposed to be held on the 26th June 2011
and you couldn’t avail yourself due to other prior commitment which we
understand that. Secondly despite the fact that these organizations
willingly moved the date from the 26th June to 17 July and still you
couldn’t avail yourself. We must say it we are very disappointed with your
actions into this regard.

We hope you will be able to secure a space on your diary to address our
gathering on the 23th July 2011, please feel free to suggest any time that
will be convenient for you while we prefer the meeting to start at 14hrs
till 17hrs.

Should you not be available on the 23th of July, can you please suggest
another date and time which will suit your diary very well.

On behalf of Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape

Mzonke Poni
Chairperson
073 2562 036

www.khayelitshastruggles.com
www.abahlali.org
abmwesterncape@abahlali.org
mzonkep@gmail.com