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Recent Articles about Southern Africa Community struggles[South Africa] We are dying for food Aug 06 21 KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng are burning Jul 14 21 Moving from Crisis in South Africa's Municipalities to Building Counte... Jul 19 19 South Africa: Armed De-Electrification in the Motala Heights Settlement
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Wednesday August 20, 2008 00:45 by Motala Heights Branch - Abahlali baseMjondolo
This morning (19th August) an eThekwini Municipal official invaded the Motala Heights settlement with a group of security guards. They drew their guns, said that they were there to disconnect what they call 'illegal electricity connections' and what every one else calls 'lifesaving community connections' and threatened to shoot anyone that resisted. The Municipal Official is known to be a friend of local gangster landlord Ricky Govender and often drinks in Govender's bar. When the official was challenged he told the community that "you are living on Ricky's land and you must go." Municipal officials are always saying this but in fact AbM went to the City deeds office in 2006 and it is clear that the settlement is on government land . In a democracy government land should be the peoples' land. In fact all vacant land should be the people's land. During the attack Bongo Dlamini, the Chairperson of the Abahlali baseMjondolo youth league whose shack burnt down on 31 July, was injured when the security guards deliberately rammed him with their car. |
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