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Latest from Siyanda: 50 Families Remain in their Homes & Refuse Eviction to “Transit Camp” Under Heavy Police Presence

Latest from Siyanda: 50 Families Remain in their Homes & Refuse Eviction to “Transit Camp” Under Heavy Police Presence

In the early morning of December 11, 2008, police vans, trucks and cars – estimated six in total – pulled into Siyanda, KwaMashu, to carry out the eviction of 52 families to make way for the new MR577 Freeway. Approximately 10 police, armed with batons and pistols, reportedly went door-to-door with a representative from Linda Masinga & Associates, to each of the 66 families’ shacks. With bulldozers and transport trucks standing by, the eviction team asked each family if they would be willing to be relocated to an area “transit camp.” As had already been officially communicated to the MEC of Transport who is seeking the eviction, all but two families refused.

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Sowetan: 'We don’t want to live in Tin Can Town’

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2009-11-10 06:48. Anna Majavu | Blikkiesdorp | forced removal | The Sowetan | transit camp

http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1086475

'We don’t want to live in Tin Can Town’

09 November 2009
Anna Majavu

‘CONCENTRATION CAMP’: Children walk between the zinc houses that were built in Delft, about 30km from Cape Town, as a “temporary” relocation area before people are moved to houses. Photo: Roger Sedres

CAPE Town’s homeless people have accused the metro police of forcibly moving them to the Blikkiesdorp “temporary relocation area” – only for the city’s land invasion unit to evict them for invading land.

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Mercury: Low-cost housing upsets residents

Clearly shack dwellers don't count as 'residents' in this article...If they did, and were spoken to, the journalist would soon have discovered all kinds of worries on that side of the fence too....Like the fact that the building of the government shacks is still not complete months after the fire (unlike in Kennedy where people, with City help in getting building materials for the first time, rebuilt themselves in a week; like the fact that the government shacks are being allocated with shocking political bias resulting in long standing residents being left homeless while outsiders with the right connections get the government shacks....

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Bulldozer Stopped in Foreman Road

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-09-15 15:41. fire | foreman | transit camp

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Bulldozer Stopped in Foreman Road

The bulldozer has been stopped. The Legal Resources Centre is on the way. If any further attempt is made to knock down any of the fully or partially rebuilt shacks before this is resolved legally the entrance roads into the settlement will be barricaded. People will defend their right to their homes, to this land and to the city.

Foreman Road residents note with concern that the article in this afternoon's Daily News, which is below, (1) fails to consult any residents of Foreman Road while only consulting the police, the Housing Department and the Councillor and that (2) according to this article Yakoob Baig, a councillor who shack dwellers have rejected since 2005, and the Housing Department will decide whether people will be allowed to stay at Foreman Road or moved to one of the notorious temporary relocation areas.

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