housing

'Be a visitor, not a spy' - QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha

red jack — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:40:10 +0000

'Be a visitor, not a spy' - QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha

Matt Birkinshaw, October 2008

Introduction

Shack Fire Summit, Kennedy Road settlement, 22 September 2008

red jack — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:55:35 +0000

Wednesday, 08 October 2008

Abahlali baseMjondolo (KwaZulu-Natal & Western Cape)
Landless Peoples' Movement (KwaZulu-Natal & Gauteng)
Rural Network (KwaZulu-Natal)
Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (Western Cape)
South African National Civics Organisations (eThekwini region)

Two-thirds of Glasgow Housing Association will remain in a "rump GHA"

afraser — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:28:51 +0000

The details are:

* 3% (=2,097) of Glasgow Housing Association houses are up for ballot (November 2008) on second stage transfer to a community based housing association.

* 30% (=20,985) of GHA houses are in Local Housing Organisations that are still progressing (at a snails pace) through the various stages of the GHA's processes towards potential second stage transfer someday.

Land and housing - S'bu Zikode

red jack — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:06:49 +0000

Land and Housing
Thursday 28 August, 2008

I have been asked to speak on the burning issues of land and housing. I only get these invitations because of the strength of the movement of which I am part and so, on behalf of Abahlali baseMjondolo, I thank Diakonia for this platform.

Cape Town: two anti-eviction campaigners jailed for a year

red jack — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:52:16 +0000

The movement, and other militant movements in South Africa considers Daniels and Isaacs to be political prisoners and is mobilising support on this basis.

We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs

red jack — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:52 +0000

The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic blood letting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks.

On the pogroms in South Africa

red jack — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:47:01 +0000

The industrial and mining towns on the Eastern outskirts of Johannesburg are unlovely places. They’re set on flat windswept plains amidst the dumps of sterile sand left over from old mines. In winter the wind bites, the sky is a very pale blue and it seems to be all coal braziers, starved dogs, faded strip malls, gun shops and rusting factories and mine headgear.

Greenlake "Motel" attempted eviction - Seattle

888 — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:00:14 +0000

On Friday May 16, tenants at twelve apartments behind the Green Lake Motel on Aurora Ave got a surprise visit from their landlords - who also own the motel and a few others - saying they had two days to move out, or they'd be arrested. The motel's license was being suspended due to unsafe conditions, and the apartments had been operating (possibly wrongly) under the same license.

South Africa: Gangster landlord continues campaign of intimidation with police support

bomvu — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:14:35 +0000

[i]London anarchist, Antonios Vradis lived in the community for a while in late 2006 from and it was here that the anarchist magazine Voices of Resistance from Occupied London was conceived.

Abahlali baseMjondolo to host National UnFreedom Day

red jack — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:07:13 +0000

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Monday 21 April 2008

Abahlali baseMjondolo to Mourn UnFreedom Day Once Again

Time: 9:00 a.m., Sunday 27 April 2008
Venue: Community Hall, Kennedy Road Shack Settlement, Clare Estate, Durban