Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2008-07-25 08:57.
Memorandum | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Update: Click here and here for newspaper reports on the march.
24 July 2008
Memoranda presented to MEC Richard Dyantyi, Thubelisha Homes, and Trafalgar Property Management
Below you will find the text from the memoranda presented to MEC Richard Dyantyi, Thubelisha Homes, and Trafalgar Property Management at today's march. Unfortunately, no representative from Trafalgar Property Management bothered to attend to accept a memorandum. After prolonged negotiations, the SAPS superintendent accepted it on their behalf.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-06-30 08:26.
police | symphony way occupation | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement
Sunday 29th June, 2008
Police Intimidate/Assault Delft-Symphony Pavement Dwellers
AEC v SAPS
Delft-Symphony -- Last night, three police vans pulled up to Symphony Way dressed in riot gear. Without warning, they began pepper spraying people in the settlement and attempted to arrest an older resident named Auntie Tilla. When it was all over, the road's pastor had been assaulted, beaten and abducted and five residents had been pepper sprayed multiple times. An American journalist had also been sprayed merely for taking photographs of police officers. The Anti-Eviction Campaign believes this intimidation and violence is uncalled for and condemns such cowardly actions by police. As of today, residents and the American journalist have laid charges of assault against Superintendent Van Wyk and the police under his command. Pavement Dwellers call on police to work with them to protect them from speeding drunk drivers rather than against them.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2008-02-19 14:51.
evictions | police | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
URGENT NEWSFLASH!! (For updates, including video footage, visit the new Anti-Eviction Campaign site here)
10:57am
Tuesday 19 February 2008
POLICE SHOOT THREE CHILDREN IN DELFT
Police proceed with unlawful eviction of 1600 residents in Delft, Cape Town
Police have started shooting people at close range in Delft. There is pandemonium and brutality. Following yesterday’s ruling in the High Court which uphold’s Thubelisha Homes and the state’s eviction order against the community, the residents decided to appeal at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. The lawyers worked through the night doing the paperwork for this appeal.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2007-12-24 22:28.
press_update; slovo | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign  Delft Occupiers At the Bellville Court Protesting at the Arrest of 5 People for Resisting Eviction
Major victory in Delft! High Court judge issues interim order preventing any evictions!
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
24th December 2007
5pm
In a major victory for about 1000 backyard dwellers and the homeless residents of Delft, the Cape High Court granted an interim order at 5pm today (21/12/2007) interdicting anyone from evicting or threatening to evict those residents who occupied the newly built houses in Delft last week.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-08-13 14:57.
Irene Grootboom | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign http://antieviction.org.za/2008/08/12/housing-activist-eulogized-by-those-who-left-her-homeless/
Housing Activist Eulogized by those who left her homeless
Kraaifontein - On Saturday, August 9, a holiday marking the contribution of women to South Africa's liberation struggle, three members of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign joined close to 500 mourners at the funeral of Irene Grootboom held at the Wallacedene informal settlement.
Eight years ago, Irene Grootboom brought her communities case before the SA Constitutional Court, calling attention to the apalling conditions faced by the adults and children living in her community.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Sat, 2008-08-02 11:40.
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Saturday 2 August 2008
9:30am
GUGULETU, CAPE TOWN - About 250 backyard residents from Langa, Nyanga and Guguletu are going to occupy some empty flats at 10:30am today.
The flats are the yellow flats behind Joe Slovo camp in Langa.
The residents have experienced floods every year but have never been catered for because they are the backyarders. The residents have been waiting for up to 40 years for house. Residents feel that now it is their turn to receive houses.
Many of today's group are pensioners and even people of up to 80 years of age. They are embarking on a peaceful occupation and hope there will be no violence from the SAPS. If there is, the AEC will not hesitate to sue the Minister of Safety and Security for damages. We are going to be documenting the police action very carefully today.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-07-30 14:21.
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement
Wednesday, 30 July, 2008
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Event: March Against Evictions in Woodstock
When: Friday, 1st of August 2008
From: Gympie Street, Woodstock, via Sir Lowry Rd, into Buitenkant Str, turn into Barrack Str, turn right onto Parade Street to Court
To: Magistrate Court, Cape Town (between Buitenkant str& Parade str)
Time: Start point depart 7h30 arrival at Court 8h30
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For four years now, we the people of Gympie Street have been living under the threat of evictions from our landlord. Different people have been coming around to us claiming to represent our landlord and wanting to collect rent. In the past our landlord has evicted us in the middle of winter, just like the previous apartheid regime. The landlord has also used all sorts of intimidation tactics, for example removing the water meters in our homes; working with the police to arrest and threaten residents; and collaborating with the City Council in a bid to cut off our electricity.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2008-07-29 13:40.
street traders | Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Statement
Tuesday July 29, 2008 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mitchell's Plain – After participating in the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign's recent General Meeting and marching in the 24 July March against Housing Privatization, the Mitchell's Plain Concerned Hawkers and Traders is set to join the AEC. Like the Gatesville Hawkers and the informal traders of Gugulethu, the traders of the Mitchell's Plain Town Centre face forced removal by city officials and well-connected business people, a conflict that once again pits the nation's first economy against the informal sector.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-07-28 09:50.
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
Monday, 28 July, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gugulethu - At 9h00, on Monday 28 July the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign will lead a protest outside of the Provincial Department of Social Services and Poverty Alleviation's Gugulethu district office to call attention to the office's failure to issue unemployment grants to those who queued up the whole day outside of the office to receieve their grant last Friday, 25 July. Rather than being provided with their R 500 in government assistance, hundreds were turned away.
Today, the Gugulethu AEC will be bringing the poor residents of Gugulethu and other communities back to the office to claim their grant and call attention to the need for government assistance to reach not a handful, but all poor people.
Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-07-28 09:48.
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign Press Release
Sunday, 27 July, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Woodstock – At 9h10 in the morning, on Wednesday 23 July 2008, three metro police and three SAPS vehicles arrived in Gympie Street and, with the help of municipal electricity department labourers, cut the electricity of the six contested flats on the road. The slumlord, Pastor Dennis Robertson, who has been harassing residents and attempting to evict them since 2003, had instructed the authorities to cut electricity and remove water meters as a punishment for their refusal to vacate the property. Residents describe this as a desperate act by Pastor Dennis Robertson who is worried of loosing next Friday's court case against residents. A past High Court Judgment has found it to be illegal to intimidate residents and force their eviction through cutting their electricity and other services.
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