Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Friday August 15, 2008
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Date: 16th August, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 14h00 - 16h30
Assembly Point: Mew Way Hall, Lansdowne Road

QQ Section - Tomorrow, the recently formed AbM Western Cape will be hosting a walkabout through Khayeltisha's informal settlements for Cape Town mayoral committee member Dan Plato and other city officials.

After assembling at Mew Way Hall, we will visit over a dozen informal settlements on foot, including QQ, RR, VT, VV, TR, AT, XA, QA, LB, and YA.

This walkabout will provide the residents of these communities with an opportunity to demonstrate directly to city officials the lack of even rudimentary services in their communities. Residents will be able to show officials what they have and what they lack, what they want and how they want it. It will offer our communities a chance to instil the accountability lacking in the process of upgrading informal settlements.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement
Friday August 8, 2008 - For Immediate Release

Date: 9th August, 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 14h00 – 16h00
Venue: QQ Revolutionary Community Crèche

QQ Section – Tomorrow, the newly formed AbM Western Cape will be holding a workshop for over 10 informal settlements in Khayelitsha on the City's 'Comprehensive Plan' for Informal Settlements.

Speakers at the workshop will include: Mzwandile Sokupa, Director of Informal Settlements for the City of Cape Town, Helen Macgregor from Development Action Group, Professor Martin Legassick, and others.

The aim of the workshop includes the following:

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement:
31 July, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Khayelitsha – QQ Section, Abahlali baseMjondolo's newest member community, has been one of the most deprived informal settlements in Cape Town: they have been waiting for services from government for the past 20 years. The last 14 years of 'democracy' has been meaningless to residents of QQ Section.

After living so many years without rudimentary services, abahlali (residents) find it very appalling for the City of Cape Town to claim that This City Works for You and the the Western Cape is a Home for All. They have sought to marginalise us and incited devisions between us so that we fight their ANC/DA political battles.

Update: Click here to read an article on the launch in the Sowetan, here to read an article in City Vision and here for some pictures.

Abahlali baseMjondolo: 'a home for all'
QQ Section Press Statement and AGM Invitation
For Immediate Release - 2nd July, 2008

The Community Creche & AbM Office, QQ, Khayelitsha, Cape Town

Event: QQ Section Annual General Meeting