Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League Camp [all night meeting with political discussions], Prince Edward Street, Durban, 15 September 2013 in preparation for the march on the City Hall on 16 September.
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Demolitions Happening Right Now in Cato Crest
Update – 2:07 a.m. Even the building materials were destroyed. AbM is now meeting at the occupation. All branches will support the occupation and the movement has affirmed its commitment to do everything possible to fight back.
Update – 9:29 a.m. These evictions are being carried out at gun point and with violence.
14 September 2013 – 9:117 a.m.
Abahlali baseMjondolo Emergency Press Statement
Demolitions Happening Right Now in Cato Crest
March on the Durban City Hall to Demand Land, Housing and Dignity
13 September 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press statement
March on the Durban City Hall to Demand Land, Housing and Dignity
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA together with Abahlali baseSipingo Transit Camp (eMathinini) will be marching to the Durban City Hall on Monday, 16 September 2013. We will be joined by Abahlali from around the province of KwaZulu-Natal including Howick and the South Coast. For a very long time there has been serious neglect of people in smaller towns.
This march comes at a very tough time for our movement. It comes at a time when we are not only beaten and repressed for raising our voices but also threatened with death and killed. Our crime has been to organize in shack settlements and to organize unorganized communities. Our crime has been to organize outside state control. Our crime has been to organize outside party control. Our crime has been to create a platform for people who are supposed to be spoken for and about to speak for ourselves. Our crime has been to speak truth to power. Our crime has been to speak out against the corruption that implicates top politicians in Cato Crest. Our crime has been to insist that everyone counts. Our crime has been to insist on our right to the cities. Our crime has been to take action to put the social value of land before its commercial value. And yes, our crime has been to insist that the state does not treat the poor as if we were beneath the rule of law and outside of our constitutional democracy.
Another Victory in the Durban High Court for Abahlali baseCato Crest
12 September 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press statement
Another Victory in the Durban High Court for Abahlali baseCato Crest
Abahlali baseCato Crest outside the Durban High Court, 12 September 2013
Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA have again won another Court Interdict prohibiting the eThekwini Municipal Land Invasion Unit and the Metro Police from demolishing the homes of Abahlali baseCato Crest. The court ordered Municipal officials and the Municipal Legal team to go to Cato Crest to indentify residents with their shacks and mark them. This is to make sure that Abahlali are no longer touched by the Municipality pending the finalization of our application. The visit will take place on Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 9 a.m. This is a relief arrangement while proceedings are under way. The City only filed their answering affidavit today and our legal team will need to respond to it before the court can hear it, together with the main application.
Attachments
Court Order 12 September 2013
Cato Crest Currently Under Illegal and Violent Attack by the eThekwini Municipality
11 September 2013 – 10:05 a.m.
Abahlali baseMjondolo – Emergency Press Statement
Cato Crest Currently Under Illegal and Violent Attack by the eThekwini Municipality
The Municipality is Attacking Cato Crest Right Now. Homes are Being Demolished. Media are requested to rush to the scene to witnesses the criminality and inhumanity of this Municipality for themselves.
Ndabo Mzimela: AbM-Cato Crest Chairperson 072 401 5974
Lindiwe: AbM- Cato Crest Activist 072 749 3693
Bandile Mdlalose: AbM- General Secretary 084 557 5090