Tuesday 24 September 2007

12noon

6000 Joe Slovo residents are protesting in town today and tomorrow

The 6000 residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa, Cape Town are now individually handing in their legal notice of their intention to oppose the state’s application to forcibly remove them from their land. They are currently in the Paul Sauer Building in the city centre.

They are being supported by residents of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shackdwellers movement from Durban.

Tomorrow there will be a mass protest at the Cape High Court where the Ministry of Housing has applied for a court order which would allow them to forcibly remove 100 families per week for the next 45 weeks.

Each and every resident vowed at community meetings last weekend that they would oppose this application in the High Court.

The law allows for each and every resident to state why they feel they should not be forcibly removed and they intend to do just that.

The state must provide the RDP houses on the land of Joe Slovo that they have been promising for so long.

For comment call the Joe Slovo Task Team directly on these numbers:

Mzwanele Zulu – 076 3852369; Mr Sepaqa – 076 9192115; Mr Mapasa – 083 7371711

Or Ashraf Cassiem from Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign on 076 1861408