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The Daily Vox: Lwandle: A mother’s story

http://www.thedailyvox.co.za/nomzamo-a-mothers-story/

Lwandle: A mother’s story

36-year-old Veronica Lujabe lies on a mattress inside the Nomzamo Community Hall. Her 18-month-old twins play nearby, but their mother is tired. After 30 days living inside a community hall, Lujabe is missing the home she once shared with her children. She told her story to RA’EESA PATHER.

I was born in KwaZulu-Natal and came to look for work in Cape Town in 1998. I got a job as a domestic worker in Somerset West and that’s how I ended up in the Nomzamo settlement, which is next to Lwandle in Strand, four months ago.

I’m a single mother. I have four children. All my children were born here in Cape Town.  Their father doesn’t live around here. Sometimes he helps out financially but if he doesn’t want to I can’t force him.

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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.

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