Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign to meet Mayor tomorrow, hold mass protest Thursday

Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement
Monday 3rd March 2008
11am

GUGULETHU, CAPE TOWN – The Anti-Eviction Campaign has at last been able to secure a meeting with Mayor Helen Zille. This will take place tomorrow (Tuesday 4th March 2008) at the Civic Centre.

The AEC is angered that the City has suddenly intensified its evictions of elderly people in Gugulethu, from council houses. Those people have been living in those houses for 20 years or more and there is no reason to evict them. The amount of rent they have paid over the years more than covers the cost of the actual houses. The Anti-Eviction Campaign will continue to return those pensioners to their houses every time they are evicted. We have a mass meeting of communities from Gugulethu to Crossroads to Khayelitsha every Sunday and the communities are adamant – we do not want any evictions whatsoever.

Also on Thursday 6th March 2008, starting from 4pm, we will hold a mass picket of hundreds of people at the Gugulethu Police Station in Section Four.

We are expecting the Mayor and the MEC for Housing in Western Cape, Richard Dyantyi, to come to the picket and collect the memorandum.

As usual, on Sunday 9th March 2008, there will be a mass meeting of communities at the Gugulethu Sports Complex at 2pm.

The media are cordially invited to attend all of the above activities.

For more information please call Mncedisi Twalo on 078 5808646