Now Madlala Village is under Attack!
22 June 2014
Emergency Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Now Madlala Village is under Attack!
Now Madlala Village in Lamontville is under attack by the same crew that attacked Cato Crest this morning. This is a war on the organised poor who are standing up for their rights.
Kennedy Road residents were attacked in 2009 after their victory in the Constitutional Court. Now residents of Cato Crest and Madlala Village are under attack after their victory.
This attack does not come as a surprise. We celebrate victories in court with caution as we know what comes next.
The contact people on the scene in Madlala Village are
Mr. Mkhize 073 619 5510
MaMkhize Nxumalo 078 433 2719
Aftermath of the attack on the Marikana Land Occupation, Cato Crest, 22 June 2014
Aftermath of the attack on the Marikana Land Occupation, Cato Crest, 22 June 2014
Aftermath of the attack on the Marikana Land Occupation, Cato Crest, 22 June 2014
Aftermath of the attack on the Marikana Land Occupation, Cato Crest, 22 June 2014
The Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Crest is Under Attack despite the Constitutional Court Ruling
22 June 2014
Emergency Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
The Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Crest is Under Attack despite the Constitutional Court Ruling
The eThekwini Municipality is currently evicting people at the Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Crest. Eighteen shacks have already been destroyed. They are evicting without a court order and despite the ruling of the Constitutional Court on 6 June 2014
Thina Khanyile has just been arrested. The comrades in Cato Crest are organising a protest.
Media are encouraged to rush to the scene.
For more information and comment please contact:
Mzamo Majozi 078 640 7999
Nadbo Mzimela 079 355 6758
Abahlali Launch New Branch in Dermet, Shallcross
22 June 2014
Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement
Abahlali Launch New Branch in Dermet, Shallcross
The Derment community in Shallcross, Ward 72, was founded in 2009. It is a semi-rural area under Inkosi N. Maphumulo. The eThekwini municipality has claimed to own the land and have been illegally evicting residents. Today the Dermit community is facing mass eviction.
The Dermit community decided to join Abahlali baseMjondolo with the hope that the movement will walk side by side with it to resist these threats. They have completed the process required to join the movement and are now ready to launch the branch. The launch will be held today.
Illegal Evictions in Madlala Village, Lamontville
20 June 2014
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Illegal Evictions in Madlala Village, Lamontville
Despite the latest Constitutional Court ruling on the 6th of June which is in favour of the poor people of the shack settlement known as Madlala Village in Lamontville, Durban, the illegal demolishing of shacks still continues. This morning at about 09:00 the eThekwini Municipality with its implementing agents was busy demolishing shacks in Madlala village, as a result 70 (seventy) shacks were demolished leaving hundreds of people homeless in the harsh conditions of the winter season.
When the demolishing team arrived in Madlala village the shack dwellers there asked if there was a court order granting the right to the eThekwini Municipality to destroy their homes. One respondent from the demolishing team responded by saying there is none and furthermore he said that they are aware of the recent Constitutional Court ruling but that they were working according to the ward councillor’s instructions to demolish these homes.
The Nomzamo Eviction: A Potential Turning Point?
http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/2041
The Nomzamo Eviction: A Potential Turning Point?
Richard Pithouse
The destruction of the Nomzamo settlement in Lwandle, Cape Town, has received an extraordinary degree of political and media attention, much of it noting the illegality and brutality of the eviction, and much of it sympathetic to the occupiers.
Evictions, generally illegal and frequently violent, have been an everyday part of actually existing modes of urban governance in post-apartheid South Africa. Most of the major cities have units maintained for the sole purpose of mobilising state violence, usually unlawfully, to combat land occupations. But despite the routine violence and illegality of these actions, as well as their striking resonance with images from the past, they have, in practice, been broadly accepted as necessary and legitimate actions by both the ANC and the DA, as well as much of the media and civil society.
Abahlali baseMjondlo Youth League Event 16 June 2014
Abahlali baseMjondlo Youth League Event 16 June 2014
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