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M&G: Open letter to James Nxumalo, Senzo Mchunu & Jacob Zuma

2 October 2013

To:

James Nxumalo, Mayor, eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa

Senzo Mchunu, Premier, KwaZulu-Natal

Jacob Zuma, President, Republic of South Africa

We are writing to you to express our grave concern at events unfolding in the Cato Crest shack settlement in Durban.

After an illegal eviction in Cato Crest by the eThekwini Municipality in March this year, shackdwellers occupied an adjacent piece of land. They named the settlement “Marikana”. Since then, two activists have been assassinated -Thembinkosi Qumbelo and Nkululeko Gwala. A third, Nkosinathi Mngomezulu, is in critical condition after being shot by the Land Invasions Unit. A number of activists have been seriously beaten by the police. Other activists, including Bandile Mdlalose and S’bu Zikode of the shack dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo who have been supporting the residents, have been threatened with death.

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Marikana Continues: Statement on the murder of Nqobile Nzuza

Thursday, 03 October 2013

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement

Marikana Continues: Statement on the murder of Nqobile Nzuza

Two young women were shot in the back in Cato Crest on Monday. They were both shot in the back while running away from the police. Nqobile Nzuza was shot in her back and in the back of her head and died on the scene. Luleka Makhwenkwana was shot in her arm, also from the back, and was taken to hospital but has now been discharged. Police spokespeople Jay Naicker and Solomon Makgale have been telling the media all kinds of lies about these shootings.

We wish to make it clear that the police are lying just as they lied after the massacre on the mountain in Marikana last year.

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Isolezwe: Basola ophethe isiteshi ngoshonile

http://www.iol.co.za/isolezwe/basola-ophethe-isiteshi-ngoshonile-1.1585132#.UkvA1dLTx34

Basola ophethe isiteshi ngoshonile

BAWINILE NGCOBO

ABANTU baseCato Crest basola umphathi wesiteshi saseCato Manor ukuthi nguye odubule intombazane eneminyaka engu-17 eshone ngesikhathi kunombhikisho izolo entathakusa.

Kulo mbhikisho kulimale uNksz Luleka Makhwenkwana ophuthunyiswe esibhedlela noNksz Thulisile Zide okuthiwa uqulekile, kwaboshwa nomholi wenhlangano yaBahlali baseMjondolo, uNksz Bandile Mdlalose.

UNqobile Nzuza (17), ofunda ugrade 10 eBonela High kuthiwa udubuleke kanye ngemuva kwesokunxele ngasehlombe inhlamvu yabhajwa ngaphakathi, washonela endaweni yesigameko.

Abebekhona kulo mbhikisho abathi bazibonele basola umphathi siteshi uColonel Mnganga okuthiwa ubengagqokile umfaniswano wamaphoyisa ukuthi nguye odubule uNqobile.

Bathi emuva kwesigameko ubonakale eseyoshintsha esefaka umfaniswano wakhe wamaphoyisa egaraji eliseduze.

Lezi zinsolo ziphikiwe okhulumela amaphoyisa esifundazweni, uColonel Jay Naicker othe zingamampunge ngoba ngesikhathi kwenzeka lesi sigameko uMnganga ubekwakhe elele singakashayi isikhathi sokuthi angene emsebenzini.

“Ufike endaweni yesigameko konke sekwenzekile. Lezi zinsolo ziyaphenywa uphiko lwe-Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID),” kusho uNaicker.

Uthe abantu bakule ndawo bavale umgwaqo uBellair entathakusa ngo-4.

“Amaphoyisa aye kule ndawo afice umgwaqo uvaliwe. Ahambe angena komunye umgwaqo uHarcomb Gardens. Ngesikhathi engena kulo mgwaqo athole iqulu labantu abangu-500 liwalindile,” kusho uNaicker.

Uthe amaphoyisa ahlaselwe, kwashaywa imoto ngamatshe kwalimala amawindi. Ababhikishi uthe bavule izicabha zemoto bazama ukukhiphela ngaphandle amaphoyisa.

“Amaphoyisa ezwe kuqhuma isibhamu equlwini abona ukuthi azobulawa abe esedubula nawo ebhekise equlwini elihlakazekile, amaphoyisa abe esephulukundlela aphindela esiteshini eyocela usizo kwamanye amaphoyisa,” kusho uNaicker.

Uthe amaphoyisa esebuya athole abesifazane ababili abebelimele, omunye oyiswe esibhedlela, omunye eseshonile.

UMnuz Dumisani Nzuza uyise kaNqobile uthe ubelele ngesikhathi kwenzeka lesi sigameko kodwa uzwa kuthiwa indodakazi yakhe ibilele kwafika omunye wayibiza beyobuka umbhikisho.

“Kuthiwa baqale bama kude kodwa wasondela efuna ukubonela eduze obekwenzeka. Amaphoyisa kuthiwa abahlakazile sekubalekwa wadubuleka. Ushonele phakathi nezindlu,” kusho uNzuza.

Uthe indodakazi yakhe ibiqala ukuya kobuka umbhikisho njengoba isivelelwe ishwa elingaka.

Izolo ekuseni umgwaqo uBellair ubuvaliwe kunamathayi. Abasebenzi bophiko lwemigwaqo kuMasipala weTheku bebematasa bekhuculula.

London Protest in Solidarity with Abahlali baseMjondolo & Against Repression

http://www.waronwant.org/news/events/17999-end-attacks-on-abahlali-basemjondolo-stop-the-shootings-free-bandile-mdlalose

End Attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo! Stop the shootings! Free Bandile Mdlalose!

3 October 4:30 pm until 7:00 pm

South Africa House, Trafalgar Square

Demonstration in solidarity with our partner, Abahlali baseMjondolo, following the killing of its members and the arrest of the Secretary General.

South African Police have shot dead a 17 year old girl, Nqobile Nzuza and arrested the Secretary General of War on Want partner, Abahlali baseMjondolo, Bandile Mdlalose.

Nqobile was shot twice from behind at 5am on Monday 30 September. Two other women were also shot and are in hospital. Bandile was arrested whilst coming to offer her condolences to the family.

The crime of those shot was to protest against being forcefully removed from their homes and to be supporters of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo. Nqobile is the third person killed in the settlement, Cato Crest in Durban, this year.

Bandile appeared in court the following day, but was denied bail. Yet no arrests or investigations have been made into the three killings in the settlement this year.

This is just the latest outrage perpetrated against the urban dispossessed of South Africa, Marikana being just one horrific example.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Solidarity UK and War on Want call on all those who supported the struggle against apartheid, all who are against forced evictions, and those who are angered by police brutality to join our solidarity demonstration on Thursday 3 October, outside South Africa House at 4:30pm until 7pm.

Daily Maverick: In Durban’s Cato Manor: Death by protest, death by dissent

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-10-01-in-durbans-cato-manor-death-by-protest-death-by-dissent/

A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed during a protest in the Cato Manor informal settlement on Monday morning. Police insist they acted in self-defence, but protesters believe the shooting was politically motivated, designed to stifle dissent. Whoever's right or wrong, Nqobile Nzuza has died. By KHADIJA PATEL.

Once more the South African Police Services's incapacity to effectively facilitate the right of South Africans to protest has come into sharp focus. In the early hours of Monday morning a 17-year-old girl, Nqobile Nzuza, from the Cato Manor informal settlement in Durban was gunned down during a protest. Activists from the shack dweller’s movement, Abahlali Base Majondolo, lay Nqobile's death squarely at the feet of the police.

Mnikelo Ndabankulu, a spokesperson for Abahlali, says the movement had decided to barricade roads in protest against government’s failure to heed to its core demand: to provide housing to the homeless.

“If you can remember very well, we had a march protest on 16 September and then we gave the municipality and other stakeholders seven days to respond to our grievances failing, which we [would] show our political power, and that is what happened in our branches – blocking roads and burning tyres,” Ndabankulu says.

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