Pavement dwellers to tackle Mayor Helen Zille
By Anele Siwa
13 May 2008
Today 300 families of the Delft – Symphony Anti–Eviction Campaign will be going to the Cape Town Civic Centre.
The pavement dwellers are coming to town with the reason of personally delivering handwritten letters indicating their wishes to Zille.
“We are angry because our opinions and needs are being ignored by the city,” says Jerome Daniels spokesperson for pavement dwellers.
According to Daniels, among other things dwellers demand the change in the way the city treat its poor people.
Robert Macdonald Mayoral spokesperson says the city can not move people straight into formal houses.
“There is a housing waiting list which we have to follow careful and we can not allow people to jump the queue by illegally invading property while law abiding citizens who have been patiently waiting on the waiting list are by passed,” he added.
13 May 2008
Today 300 families of the Delft – Symphony Anti–Eviction Campaign will be going to the Cape Town Civic Centre.
The pavement dwellers are coming to town with the reason of personally delivering handwritten letters indicating their wishes to Zille.
“We are angry because our opinions and needs are being ignored by the city,” says Jerome Daniels spokesperson for pavement dwellers.
According to Daniels, among other things dwellers demand the change in the way the city treat its poor people.
Robert Macdonald Mayoral spokesperson says the city can not move people straight into formal houses.
“There is a housing waiting list which we have to follow careful and we can not allow people to jump the queue by illegally invading property while law abiding citizens who have been patiently waiting on the waiting list are by passed,” he added.
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