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Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign was a non-racial popular movement made up of poor and oppressed communities in Cape Town, South Africa.Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa by the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, ''The Nation Magazine'' It was formed in November 2000 with the aim of fighting s, water cut-offs and poor health services, obtaining free electricity, securing decent housing, and opposing . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Nyanga, Cape Town
Nyanga is a township (South Africa), township in the Western Cape, South Africa. Its name in Xhosa language, Xhosa means "moon" and it is one of the oldest Black people, black townships in Cape Town. In 1948, Athlone, Cape Town, Athlone was declared a coloured-area, resulting in the forced removal of black residents, who were forced to settle in Nyanga near Langa, Cape Town, Langa. Nyanga is situated from Cape Town along the N2 (South Africa), N2 highway, close to the Cape Town International Airport and next to the townships of Gugulethu and Crossroads (Cape Town), Crossroads. History The neighbourhood was established in 1946 and was built for the black residents of Elsie's River, Athlone, Cape Town, Athlone and Simon's Town who were forcibly removed as a result of the Group Areas Act, 1948 Group Areas Act. Between 1956 and 1959, an estimate of about 21 000 residents from Goodwood, Cape Town, Goodwood, Parow, Cape Town, Parow, and Bellville, Western Cape, Bellville were forcibly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Land! No House! No Vote!
No Land! No House! No Vote! is a campaign by a number of poor people's movements in South Africa that calls for the boycotting of the vote and a general rejection of party politics and vote banking. The name is meant to imply that if government does not deliver on issues important to affected communities (such as land and housing) these movements will not vote. History The ''No Land! No House! No Vote!'' campaign began as a national campaign by the South African Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) in 2004. Originally called the ''No Land! No Vote!'' campaign, the Landless People's Movement and the National Land Committee argued that voters have to be registered in their home ward to vote and that it would be impossible to vote if families were under threat of eviction or had no secure tenure. Amnesty International has reported that LPM activists were tortured during the 2004 national government elections after taking on a 'No Land! No Vote' position. In 2006, the Western Cape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers
Symphony Way Informal Settlement was a small community of pavement dwellers (shack dwellers who live on the pavement) that lived on Symphony Way, a main road in Delft, Cape Town, Delft, South Africa, from February 2008 until late 2009. They were a group of families that were evicted in February 2008 from the N2 Gateway Houses. History of the community In December 2007, Frank Martin (councillor), Frank Martin, a Democratic Alliance Councillor and City of Cape Town mayoral committee member, issued letters to an estimated 300 families in Delft, which granted them permission to move into the houses, and stated that he would accept full responsibility for the consequences. Backyard-dwellers then N2 Gateway Occupations, occupied over 1,500 houses in the N2 Gateway. In February, over 1,500 families were evicted from the N2 Gateway houses. This was a violent eviction which included the use of rubber bullets. Over 20 people were injured including many women and children. Pictures and vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hout Bay
Hout Bay (, meaning "Wood Bay") is a seaside suburb of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is situated in a valley on the Atlantic seaboard of the Cape Peninsula, twenty kilometres south of the Central business district of Cape Town. The name "Hout Bay" can refer to the town, the bay on which it is situated, or the entire valley. The area was originally made up of two farms, which were slowly subdivided to make way for urban expansion. While still maintaining its rural atmosphere, the area of Hout Bay has more than 5,960 residences inhabited by a population of at least 17,900 people (as of 2011). Pronunciation The pronunciation of "Hout Bay" varies: * Afrikaans Pronunciation: ''həʊ-'t bʌɪ / hoe-'t'' (contracted "t") bye. * English Pronunciation: ''həʊ-'t beɪ / hoe-'t'' (contracted "t") bay. * Adapted English Pronunciation: ''haʊ-'t beɪ / how-'t'' (contracted "t") bay. History Pre-colonisation From remains found in a cave, we know that people live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langa, Cape Town
Langa is a Township (South Africa), township in Cape Town, South Africa. Its name in Xhosa language, Xhosa means "sun". The township was initially built in phases before being formally opened in 1927. It was developed as a result of South Africa's Pass laws, 1923 Urban Areas Act (more commonly known as the "pass laws"), which was designed to force Africans to move from their homes into segregated locations. Similar to Nyanga, Cape Town, Nyanga, Langa is one of the many areas in South Africa that were designated for Black Africans before the apartheid era. It is the oldest of such suburbs in Cape Town and was the location of much resistance to apartheid. Langa is also where several people were killed on 21 March 1960, the same day as the Sharpeville massacre, during the anti-pass campaign. On 21 March 2010, now 50 years later, a monument was unveiled by the government in remembrance of the people who died while on the protest march. Location Langa is bordered by the M17 road ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Slovo Liberative Residents
Joe Slovo is an informal settlement in Langa, and in Milnerton Cape Town. Like many other informal settlements, it was named after former housing minister and anti-Apartheid activist, Joe Slovo. With over 20,000 residents, Joe Slovo is one of the largest informal settlements in South Africa. While residents have been fighting for 15 years for their right to live in Langa, the settlement recently came into prominence when it began to oppose the national pilot housing project of minister Lindiwe Sisulu called The N2 Gateway. Residents have opposed the government's request that they be forcibly removed to Delft, a new township on the outskirts of the city. After a High Court ruling by controversial Judge John Hlophe in favor of the Government, many experts in constitutional law have claimed the ruling to be unjust and against the South African Constitution. Since then, residents have appealed the decision and taken it to the South African Constitutional Court. In August 2008, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikhula Sonke
Sikhula Sonke farmworkers union is a women-led Western Cape based independent trade union. Its focus includes issues such as labour rights, domestic violence, food insecurity and alcohol abuse. The union has over 4000 employed and unemployed members including those living on farms in Stellenbosch, Grabouw, Villiersdorp, Franschhoek, Ceres, Rawsonville, Paarl and Wellington. Its members resolved to boycott the April 2009 elections as part of the No Land! No House! No Vote! Campaign. In 2011 it had around 5 000 members on over 200 farms in ten different districts of the Western Cape. by Anciano, Fiona, Rhodes University, 2013 See also * |
Abahlali BaseMjondolo
Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM, , in English: "the residents of the shacks") is a socialist shack dwellers' movement in South Africa which primarily campaigns for land, housing and dignity, to democratise society from below and against xenophobia. The movement grew out of a road blockade organised from the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the city of Durban in early 2005 and has since expanded to other parts of South Africa. As of October 2022 it claims to have more than 115,000 members in good standing in 81 branches in four of the nine provinces of South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape and Gauteng. It has links with similar social movements elsewhere in the world, such as the Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil. It has faced sustained, and at times violent, repression. More than twenty of its leaders have been assassinated, something it blames on the ruling African National Congress. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QQ Section
QQ Section also known as Tambo Park, was founded in 1989 and is an Informal Settlement in the Site B sub-division of Khayelitsha in South Africa. Structure and location There are about 650 families living in QQ Section, which is occupied mostly by migrants from the Eastern Cape and backyard-dwellers from the old overcrowded sections of Khayelitsha. QQ section is located on Eskom-owned land beneath power lines and next to the formal settlements of Q Section and the informal settlements of BM Section, RR Section and France. Conditions The settlement is well known as one of the most under-served and neglected communities in Cape Town. It has no services except for eight water taps. The city has refused to build toilets in the settlement and residents have to either pay homeowners in Q Section to use their facilities or cross the N2 freeway and use an open field. Despite living under electricity pylons, government refuses to install formal electricity in the community. Resident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign
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Khayelitsha
Khayelitsha () is a township (South Africa), township in Western Cape, South Africa, on the Cape Flats in the City of Cape Town, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. The name is Xhosa language, Xhosa for ''New Home''. It is reputed to be one of the largestNew, Assertive Women's Voices in Local Election by Erna Curry, 29 January 2011 and fastest-growing townships in South Africa. History Cape Town initially opposed implementing the Group Areas Act passed in 1950, and residential areas in the city remained unsegregated until the first Group Areas were declared in the city in 1957. When Cape Town finally started implementing the Group Areas Act, it did so more severely than any other major city; by the mid-1980s, it had become one of the most racia ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
