Shallcross: the Tyres are Burning
http://www.abahlali.org - Sekwanele! - http://antieviction.org.za/
Yesterday
120 families were violently evicted from incompletely built
and then
abandoned RDP houses in Shallcross. They had
occupied these houses after people with papers to show that
they had been given houses were left in shacks as their
houses were corruptly given to others who were paying for
them. Eight of the 120 families are AbM members.
Last night the evicted families reoccupied the houses. Now the police are back. The tyres are burning. The media are urged to rush to the scene.
For more, please visit the website of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign at: www.antieviction.org.za and follow us on www.twitter.com/antieviction
Visit Abahlali baseMjondolo at www.abahlali.org and www.khayelitshastruggles.com
The Poor People's Alliance: Abahlali baseMjondolo, together with with Landless People's Movement (Gauteng), the Rural Network (KwaZulu-Natal) and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, is part of the Poor People's Alliance - a unfunded national network of democratic membership based poor people's movements.
ENDS