
Land occupiers homeless after sewage pipe burst
Land occupiers whose homes in Empolweni and Ethembeni were wrecked by the flood of sewage have appealed to the City of Cape Town for help but the City is refusing.
Land occupiers whose homes in Empolweni and Ethembeni were wrecked by the flood of sewage have appealed to the City of Cape Town for help but the City is refusing.
Land occupiers promise to return to land they are evicted from as they cannot afford to rent the backyard shacks they stayed in before.
Not finding anyone to receive their memorandum at the Civic Centre and at Parliament, the protestors vowed to return in the next few days.
While the upgrading of informal settlements programme is government policy to tackle their developmental challenges, the City of Cape Town says that it will not provide services to the new settlement.
According to the report, basic services in Marikana are temporary, “anonymous and dehumanising”.
18 structures were demolished by the Anti-Land Invasion Unit of the City of Cape Town on open land adjacent to a ‘temporary’ settlement
A group of about 100 land activists marched to Parliament to demand speedy expropriation of land without compensation.
Housing organisations marched against evictions that are a feature of the state’s response to the growing wave of land occupations around the City.
The final hearing on the amendment of Section 25 of the Constitution was held in Cape Town this past weekend.
Four accused of destroying shack belonging to a community leader of the Siyahlala land occupation in Khayelitsha appear in court,
Ramaphosa Informal Settlement residents say the City should expect more protests if it does not back down from planning evictions.
Widespread protests for land and housing are taking place with backyarders and landless people occupying vacant land in Cape Town.