Backyard dwellers moved at gunpoint
By Mandisi Tyulu
22September 2008
About 300 backyard dwellers have returned to the open piece of land on Lansdowne Road, next to the Fezeka municipal buildings and are going to start building their shacks there.
The community has twice tried to occupy this land, yesterday and last weekend, and the dwellers were on both times driven away at gunpoint by the police and metro cops.
Anti Eviction Campaign co-coordinator Mcedisi Twalo says this is very unjust as they have with them their "red cards" showing that they joined the housing waiting list many years ago, and besides, they have been promised this piece of land as backyarders by many different politicians especially just before elections.
“The community has vowed to go to the land every day and try to erect their shacks, until they succeed in getting the right to live on the land permanently”.
22September 2008
About 300 backyard dwellers have returned to the open piece of land on Lansdowne Road, next to the Fezeka municipal buildings and are going to start building their shacks there.
The community has twice tried to occupy this land, yesterday and last weekend, and the dwellers were on both times driven away at gunpoint by the police and metro cops.
Anti Eviction Campaign co-coordinator Mcedisi Twalo says this is very unjust as they have with them their "red cards" showing that they joined the housing waiting list many years ago, and besides, they have been promised this piece of land as backyarders by many different politicians especially just before elections.
“The community has vowed to go to the land every day and try to erect their shacks, until they succeed in getting the right to live on the land permanently”.
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