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http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/klapmuts-protesters-block-road-1.1394377#.UGr94ZhFyFd

Klapmuts protesters block road

Jason Felix

Klapmuts residents vented their frustration against poor services and houses in a protest that started at 5am, barricading roads.

They marched on the Klapmuts Main Road, burned tyres tree stumps and road signs, chanted and sang Struggle songs. They protested about a poor sanitation, roads and formal housing.

Open Letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille regarding her failure to receive our memoranda and treat us with dignity

Dear Mayor Patricia de Lille,

Re: failure to receive our memoranda and treat us with dignity

As shackdwellers from Sweet Home, Samora Machel and Langa TRA, we would like to express our shock and extreme displeasure at the way you have treated us by refusing to accept our memoranda during our march on the 1st of October 2012.

Almost 500 of us decided to march on the Mayor, the Premier and the offices of the Housing Development Agency to show how we are being ignored by the government when they fail to engage with our legitimate grievances. Despite this, you as the Mayor continues to ignore us, disrespect us, and undermine us.

Shackdweller communities to march on the Housing Development Agency and Housing MEC Madikizela

Event: Shackdwellers to march in CBD
Date: 1st October
Time: 10am
Location: Keizergraght to the Provincial Legislature to HDA offices on Bree St

Tomorrow, a collection of shackdweller communities from Sweet Home informal settlement, from Samora Machel in Philippi, from Langa Temporary Relocation Area and from Abahlali baseMjondolo in Site B in Khayelitsha, will be assembling in Keizergraght where we will be marching to express our frustration at the 'lip service delivery' of government in our communities.

Statement by Sweet Home Farm Residents' Committee
21 September 2012

(See also, this independent report on our community published in the Mail & Guardian)

We will march on the mayor and premier on the 1st of October!

We write this letter as a committee that represents the residents of Sweet Home Farm, a shack settlement in Philippi with about 15,000 people living in poverty, with very bad health problems and almost no services.

Our community is angry and we are fed up at the empty promises of our Councillor (ANC) and our Mayor (DA). They promise service delivery and then when it comes time to deliver, they ignore us. But then they want us to vote for them? This is not democracy. Helen Zille says that we are ANC Youth League. But none of us are from the Youth League. We are not even ANC. We are from all political parties – including the DA