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Isolezwe: Evictions Terror Hits Sea Cow Lake Again

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2007-11-06 18:00. | | | |


Update:7 March 2008 Click here for an article in the Sowetan on a protest by people made homeless in this patently illegal eviction.

Update:13 November 2007 Click here to see an article in the Daily News on the (Slums Act?) 'transit camp' that has been set up for the evicted families.

After 15 years of living in a settled community people are now being evicted, apparently with a court order, after the municipality sold off the public owned land (that had been popularly appropriated for a new commonage) to a private owner. Last time around people in Sea Cow Lake vigorously resisted eviction. This is not an Abahlali settlement but, from outside, it seems unlikely that the court support for the eviction would stand up to an appeal given that people are being left homeless.

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Daily News: Fire, rain hit SA

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-09-01 13:24. | | |

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4588456

Fire, rain hit SA
Storms and bush blazes ravage the country

September 01, 2008 Edition 3

Daily News Reporters

More than three quarters of KwaZulu-Natal was affected by runaway fires this weekend, according to the MEC for Social Welfare, Meshack Radebe.

Speaking in Nkandla today, Radebe said fires and strong winds in the province claimed 17 lives and left hundreds homeless.

Most of the people who died yesterday were pensioners and children.

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The Post: Illegal power cuts puts area in darkness - Sub-station bombed

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-08-27 07:21. | | | |

http://www.thepost.co.za/?fArticleId=4579424

Illegal power cuts puts area in darkness
Sub-station bombed

August 27, 2008 Edition 1

CHARLENE RAMJITH

AN INTIMIDATING note, left behind after a sub-station, which generates electricity in Maynard Road, Sea Cow Lake, was blown up, has sparked fear among residents.

The note, according to the concerned community who believe those responsible for blowing up the sub-station were from a nearby informal settlement, stated: "If we cannot have electricity no one can".

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Daily News: 'No one can have it if we can't'

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-08-20 15:32. | | | |

Note how this article conflates community connections and copper cable theft - two completely different things....and how threats from above are normalized while a threat from below, with a clearly spelled out logic, is 'bizarre'...

http://www.dailynews.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20080820111834480C857906

'No one can have it if we can't'
20 August 2008, 12:14

By Heinz de Boer

"If you remove our cables, you had better move all the power from the area. No-one can have it if we are not allowed to (have electricity)."

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Solidarity: 11 arrests as the Siyathuthuka settlement (Durban) resists evictions

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2007-10-05 10:42. | | | |

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4065350

Police fire rubber bullets
Chaos as shack dwellers go on rampage

The Mercury

October 05, 2007 Edition 2

NTOKOZO MFUSI

Chaos erupted in Durban's Sea Cow Lake area yesterday as police clashed with informal dwellers, who were burning tyres and logs in an illegal protest.

The protesters would not allow people to go to work.

The protest, during which roads were blockaded, was sparked by the demolition of the informal residents' shacks by the Housing Department and the municipality.

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