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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

 

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Following several brutal and unlawful evictions at a gun point by the eThekwini Municipal Land Invasion Unit in Cato Crest (Marikana land occupation) and Lamontville (Sisonke Village) Abahlali baseMjondolo won several court interdicts against the Municipality. Each and every time we secured an interdict, or an undertaking from the Municipality to cease its illegal behaviour, the interdicts and undertakings were ignored and the Municipality continued with their violent and unlawful evictions. It is clear that the eThekwini Municipality considers itself to be above the law and impoverished black people to be beneath the law. Continue reading →

City Press: Land occupations: All eyes on KZN court ruling

Paddy Harper, City Press

The struggle for urban land is set to heat up as land occupations – and court actions to defend them – escalate.

Ahead of next year’s local government elections, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will continue its land occupation programme, which has seen more than 100 small-scale occupations, while other rights groups are set for a series of court actions on which the future of thousands of squatters living on government-owned land hinges.

EFF national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said his party would continue its land occupations “slowly but surely” as branches mobilised people who had been on housing waiting lists for more than a decade, or who had been evicted and were looking for shelter. Continue reading →

The Witness: KZN to set up anti-land invasion unit

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/KZN-to-set-up-anti-land-invasion-unit-20150512

Thamsanqa Magubane

THE KZN Human Settlements Department is setting up an anti-land invasion unit to combat the invasion of government land.
Department spokesperson Mbulelo Baloyi said they had gone out to tender to contract a service provider, and the talks were at an advanced stage.

He was speaking to The Witness on the sidelines of the department’s budget debate in the provincial legislature yesterday, where MEC Ravi Pillay tabled his budget of R3,5 billion for the 2015/16 financial year.

The budget dealt with several issues including land invasions.

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