Category Archives: evictions

Vicious evictions continue in eKhenana

18 January 2019
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Vicious evictions continue in eKhenana

On Wednesday afternoon the Anti Land Invasion Unit waged a brutal attack on the eKhanana land occupation in Cato Crest. More than 35 homes were demolished and burnt by these thugs.

The attack yesterday happened despite the matter being before the court. On 27 December last year we approached the High Court for an urgent interdict against the repeated attacks on the eKhanana occupation. The lawyers for the Municipality asked the court for time to prepare their answering affidavit. The court specifically stated that there should be no further evictions until the matter had been resolved. These evictions were therefore in violation of both the law and the specific instruction of the court.  Continue reading →

Abahlali Return to Court in the Wake of Another Murder and More Illegal Evictions

26 December 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Abahlali Return to Court in the Wake of Another Murder and More Illegal Evictions

Once again Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement SA will be going to court to prevent ongoing illegal and brutal evictions directed at an impoverished community by the eThekwini Municipality. This time the target of the Municipality’s attack is the eKhenana land occupation in Cato Crest.

In the past six months the notorious Anti Land Invasion Unit, with the support of the eThekwini Metro Police, has been regularly demolishing and burning down people’s homes in the eKhenana land occupation.  Continue reading →

Tomorrow We Go to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents

Monday, 26 November 2018
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Tomorrow We Go to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents

Tomorrow the eNduduzweni branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo goes to Durban High Court as the eThekwini Municipality and KZN Department of Social Development intensifies its war on the blind and physical challenged residents in the eNduduzweni Centre for the Disabled in uMlazi.

At the same time the eThekwini Municipality’s Land Invasion Unit is intensifying its was on the eKhenana land occupation in uMkhumbane.  Continue reading →

“We are only good for votes” say Cato Crest families

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Residents face more evictions in their new community

Families who were evicted from Cato Crest in Durban have cleared space in a nearby forest to build themselves Ekhenana – a “Place of Hope”. Though they have been evicted several times they say they are prepared to “die” for their new homes.

The last eviction was on Tuesday and soon after the land invasion unit had left, the residents quickly put up their homes again.  Continue reading →

Tembisa land occupiers accuse police of brutality

Tembisa land occupiers accuse police of brutality

City says it is committed to building houses on the land

Bongani Siwela rebuilds his shack with paper after it was demolished by the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department during an eviction. Siwela, who is unemployed, makes a living by recycling plastic and paper. He moved to this area because he could not afford the R750 rent which he was charged in Tembisa to stay in a backyard shack. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee

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Land occupiers in Tembisa say they have been at the receiving end of violent, persistent and unlawful attacks by police, with the most brutal attack taking place on Monday, 30 July.

Shack dwellers on the land, which they have named Phumula Mqashi, were allegedly stripped naked and beaten by both Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) and South African Police Service (SAPS) members from Tembisa. Their makeshift shacks were burnt. Continue reading →