Tuesday 24 September 2007

12noon

6000 Joe Slovo residents are protesting in town today and tomorrow

The 6000 residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa, Cape Town are now individually handing in their legal notice of their intention to oppose the state's application to forcibly remove them from their land. They are currently in the Paul Sauer Building in the city centre.

They are being supported by residents of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shackdwellers movement from Durban.

Tomorrow there will be a mass protest at the Cape High Court where the Ministry of Housing has applied for a court order which would allow them to forcibly remove 100 families per week for the next 45 weeks.