Sweet Home residents wont move to the “small” new houses
Sweet Home Farm shack dwellers are not prepared to move to new houses built by the City of Cape Town. They say the houses are very small and there is no enough space for children to play.
Cape Town
Land and housing activists: “We will take the land because it belongs to us”
There has been an increasing number of land and housing activists that have been murdered lately. Mthunzi “Ras Moziah” Zuma was shot and killed during a road blockade next to the land they were occupying near Khayelitsha Mall. Less than a month later another land and housing activist in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay 41 kilometres west of Khayelitsha was shot by the police during a housing protest and later died in hospital.
Land and housing activists have pledged to continue taking and occupying vacant land despite brutal repression by the state and the killing of those who fight for land. The commitment was made at seminar in Khayelitsha Monday night where different groups of organisations representing activists from Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town met to share their experiences of state and police brutality.
Trade union accuses police of colluding with farmers
CSAAWU has accused the South African Police Services of colluding with farm owners when it comes to farmworkers laying charges against farmowners. This comes after a farmworker was taken to a deserted place and threatened with violence and death following a break-in at a farmer’s house in Paarl.
“ANCYL activists” claim the Western Cape ANCYL PEC is illegitimate
There is no legitimate ANCYL Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) in the Western Cape Province says a group of ANCYL members who call themselves “ANCYL activists”
Shoprite charges 7 contract workers with theft for accepting tips
Chantay Potts said they were handcuffed in front of staff and customers. “We were handcuffed and were made to stand for 4 hours,” said Potts. The 19-year-old mother of one said they are accused of theft because they took tips from customers.
Radio documentary on the Marikana Massacre
On Thursday 16th August 2012, the state and its heavily armed police force, under pressure from the mine bosses, government officials and the NUM leadership, […]
Schools threaten children of foreign nationals with expulsion
Several foreign nationals staying in Kraaifontein are not sure whether their children will continue learning after they received warnings from schools that they should get refugee permits even when born in South Africa.
Political parties march for and against #NoConfidence – photos
On Tuesday, 8 August opposition parties marched to Parliament calling on parliamentarians to vote Zuma out. In a day that was expected to be marred […]
Civil Society mobilisation for the no confidence vote – photos
On Monday, 7 August civil society groups took to the streets calling for the African National Congress to recall President Zuma and that Members of […]
ANCYL leader wants Hanekom and SACP expelled
“Derek Hanekom has to be expelled for what he did and the SACP has to be expelled for marching against the President yesterday (Monday).” Sayed was addressing ANC supporters after President Jacob Zuma survived the motion of no confidence.
Opposition parties unite against Zuma
Following a similar proceeding the previous day by the United Behind Movement led by Mcebisi Jonas, the former Deputy Finance Minister, the more than 10,000 marchers from the ACDP, Cope, DA, EFF, and UDM, trade unions and Save South Africa declared that they will continue to mobilise until they get rid of the head of state.
1994 demobilization ‘our biggest mistake’ – Jonas
Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Mcebisi Jonas believes that the biggest historical mistake the country made after 1994 was to demobilize society and pin the country’s hopes on liberators and political parties. Jonas was addressing a crowd of demonstrators from civil society outside Parliament who were calling for President Zuma to be removed.
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