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The Anti Privatisation Forum (APF) supports the Joe Slovo Residents Constitutional Court appeal against mass eviction

Thursday 21st August 2008 by Dale
EQUAL RIGHTS & HOUSING FOR ALL!
STATEMENT - Thursday 21st August 2008
Today, members of the Anti Privatisation Forum (APF) joined hundreds of Joe Slovo and Inner-City Resource Centre residents at the Constitutional Court, where their appeal against High Court Judge Hlophe’s eviction order was heard. The imminent threat of mass eviction (and forcible removal to Delft) is a direct result of the top-down, anti-democratic manner in which the Ministry of Housing (and their principal agents, (...)

Pretoria march against evictions

Tuesday 15th July 2008 by Ahmed
The residents of Schubart Park/Kruger Park will be marching on the 16th July 2008 at 11h00 am to the Office of Gwen Ramokgopa in Pretoria (corner Vermuelen and Van Der Walt Street) to deliver a memorandum of grievances around the intended evictions from their flat in Schubart street. Thousands of the residents will be gathering at the Schubart street complex at 08h00 and the march will proceed at 11h00.
The City of Tshwane has negotiated with the residents in bad faith. Tshwane mayor Gwen (...)

Kliptown residents march to Mandela

Tuesday 8th July 2008 by Ahmed
Kliptown residents don’t join the world in celebrating Saint Mandela’s birthday.
We want him to share our poverty with the rest of the world
The Kliptown Concerned Residents will be marching on the 12th July 2008 at 10h00 to the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication to deliver a memorandum to Nelson Mandela. The community will be gathering at Battery Centre from 9h00 and proceed to Union Road at 11h00. We are protesting against poor service delivery in the area and we want the former State (...)

March for Housing in Pretoria

Tuesday 8th July 2008 by Ahmed
MAILA GOFENYWA ORGANISATION (MGO)/
ANTI PRIVATISATION FORUM (APF)
The residents of Attridgeville Lotus Garden march against the privatisation of land in Pretoria
Residents of Attridgeville will be marching today at 09h00 to the Tshwane Department of Housing to deliver a memorandum of grievances to the Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu, and MEC of Housing, Nomvula Mokonyane. We will gather at Jubilee Park, Sunnyside and then proceed to the Housing Department’s Govan Mbeki House in Walker (...)

ANC on a downward mission in Kliptown

Tuesday 24th June 2008 by Ahmed
The African National Congress (ANC) retraces its roots to the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown on the 26th June 1955 while betraying the people who live there
Empty Promises of the People’s Conversion
"WE, THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA, DECLARE FOR ALL OUR COUNTRY AND THE WORLD TO KNOW:
that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of all the people; - that our people have been (...)