Shallcross: the Tyres are Burning

http://www.abahlali.org - Sekwanele! - http://antieviction.org.za/

Yesterday 120 families were violently evicted from incompletely built and then
abandoned RDP houses in Shallcross. They had occupied these houses after people with papers to show that they had been given houses were left in shacks as their houses were corruptly given to others who were paying for them. Eight of the 120 families are AbM members.

Last night the evicted families reoccupied the houses. Now the police are back. The tyres are burning. The media are urged to rush to the scene.

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.

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