To all Civic Organisations
12 November 2008
Inner City Residents March

We invite organisations to join the Residents of The Inner-City in a march on the 19th of November 2008. The march will be to Luthuli House (ANC Headquarters)where we intend to give a Memorandum to the Secretary General of the ANC. Residents will converge at the Joubert Park Art Gallery at 09:00am and leave at 10:30am.

The Inner City Residents will be marching against:

? INTIMIDATION
? ILLEGAL ADMINISTRATORS
? BUILDING HIJACKINGS
? HIGH COURT CORRUPTION
? EVICTIONS
? POLICE CORRUPTION

http://antix.red.m2014.net/?q=node/20

http://www.anarkismo.net/article/10535

24-hour Picket at Lindela Repatriation Centre, Friday 21 November, 12 noon

Demands for the Closure of the Lindela Repatriation Centre

The Coalition Against Xenophobia is a broad coalition of civil society organisations, social movements and individuals who are committed to working against xenophobia and towards the improvement and transformation of our society.

Inner City Resource Centre (ICRC) - Media Release

[7 November 2008]

INNER CITY PICKET AT JEPPE POLICE STATION MOVED TO MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER AT 10AM

Due to frantic work instituting legal proceedings and obtaining an urgent order from the Johannesburg High Court to allow the residents of the building back into their home, the women only picket planned for yesterday (see below) could not go ahead. It will now be held on Monday 10 November 2008, at 10am at Jeppe Police Station. We apologize for any inconvenience.

We are asking all women living in the Inner City to attend the picket, which will be against corrupt police practice in the Inner City and police involvement in violent illegal evictions like Wednesday’s, which cause immense suffering to themselves and their children. Police are meant to be protectors of the people, not persecutors of the poor for money under the table…

MEMORANDUM TO THE MAYOR OF CITY OF CAPE TOWN

Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape

Email: abmwesterncape@abahlali.org
website: www.khayelitshastruggles.com

Dear Madam Mayor
Date: 22 October 2008

We (the shack dwellers of Khayelitsha) would like to bring our concerns into your attention and we note with great concerns that people who are living at informal settlements within the City of Cape Town are ignored and undermined by the City and we therefore call on the City of Cape Town:

Guguelthu Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement
14 October, 2008 - For Immediate Release

Begin: Gugulethu Sports Complex
End: Mzoli's Place
Time: 15h00

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Later today, the Gugulethu Anti-Eviction Campaign will be marching with Eyona tenants to Mzoli's Place – a tourist hotspot and famous butchery/nightclub.

Months ago, small and informal business were evicted from Eyona Shopping Centre to make way for a new Mall. While this development is primarily being financed by Old Mutual, Mr. Mzoli Ngcauzela (whom residents have dubbed black wolf with sheep skin) has been Old Mutual's strongman in dealing with the community.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080920085120313C539188

'Protesting is our last resort'

When a police Nyala drove through barriers of burning tyres and rubble that had been used to barricade the Golden Highway, Bricks Mokolo was reminded of the grim events of September 1984.

Then, the protests in the Vaal region against rent increases imposed by the Vaal council left almost 50 people dead. For Mokolo, protests on the same highway in Orange Farm struck a chord.

http://www.isolezwe.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4612884

Bebesho ukubakhipha ngodli ezindlini zomxhaso

September 16, 2008 Edition 1

BAWINILE NGCOBO

KUSHUBE isimo eSiyanda, KwaMashu, eThekwini, izolo ngesikhathi abantu abahlala emijondolo yakule ndawo besho ukukhipha ngenkani abantu abebezofakwa ezindlini zomxhaso eziseKhulula ngase-Newlands West.

Amalungu omphakathi abedinwe eveva, ekhuza iziqubulo ezikhombisa ukungahambisani nokufakwa kwalaba bantu ezindlini, bebebabaza ukuthi bona namanje basahlala emijondolo, basalindile kodwa kukhona asebethola izindlu.

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4600833

Gran gets new lease on life

September 09, 2008 Edition 1

LATOYA NEWMAN & SINEGUGU NDLOVU

AN Ulundi mother of eight and grandmother of 35 graduated from a basic adult literacy course yesterday at the age of 86.

"Although it's extremely late in my life, I'm happy that I have an education. I thought I was going to die illiterate," said Pauline Zulu.

Zulu, who was among 6 000 people who graduated from the education department's Masifundisane adult literacy programme, said having a basic education had given her new life.