Shackdweller Communities To March On The Housing Development
Shackdweller Communities To March On The Housing
Development Agency And Housing MEC
Madikizela
Event: Shackdwellers to march in
CBD
Date: 1st October
Time: 10am
Location:
Keizergraght to the Provincial Legislature to HDA offices on
Bree St
Tomorrow, a collection of shackdweller
communities from Sweet Home informal settlement, from
Samora Machel in Philippi, from Langa Temporary Relocation
Area and from Abahlali baseMjondolo in Site B in
Khayelitsha, will be assembling in Keizergraght where we
will be marching to express our frustration at the 'lip
service delivery' of government in our
communities.
Not only does the government fail
to provide us with services, but they also fail to
meaningfully consult with us about how these services should
be delivered to us. They do not treat us as human beings.
They do not treat us with dignity.
We are tired of empty promises from politicians who we vote for as our leaders but who become unscrupulous leaders. We are fed up with the horrible conditions in which we live. As the poor, our human rights and democracy are still invisible to us. We feel that our rights to basic services, water, roads and sanitation are being undermined and we are being treated in such manner in which we don’t belong in the province and in this country.
We therefore march on our government and their representatives.
We are marching on the Mayor for her mistreatment of us. For instance in Sweet Home, her office makes promises and then does not keep them. Then when we protest, she says we are being manipulated by 'third forces'.
We are marching on the provincial executive
as they have promised us housing but don't deliver. And when
they do deliver, only the corrupt benefit.
We are
marching on the Housing Development Agency which has been
given the responsibility by the Human Settlements Department
to provide us with dignified housing, not the government
built shacks we have been 'temporarily' dumped in for eight
years.
Attached are some of the memoranda our communities will be presenting to the above organs of government. We wish to be clear that we are marching as poor communities and we are not associated with any political party or NGOs. We represent ourselves.
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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