Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape support the initiative of creating
community from below by Makhaza back yard dwellers.



within the city of Cape Town there is a backlog of more than 500, 000
and this number increase by 20, 000 while the city of Cape Town can
only afford to buid 8000 houses per year.



It is clear that people who are in the waiting list and those liiving
within informal settlement will have to wait more than 30 years before
they can access descent houses within the city of Cape Town.



For the pasat few days people of Makhaza at section 36 have been
building their own shacks at an open space of unused land for more
that 17 years, most of these people have been in the waiting for more
than 15 years.



As an organisation we fail to understand as to why the city of Cape
Town is against the notion of people's drven development of building
communities from below, because it is clear that the city is failing
completly to meet it's housing demand.



As abahlali baseMjondolo we call on the City of Cape Town to immediatly:


1. Stop demolitiong peoples structure without order from the court

2. To immediatly return people's material that was confiscated
illegally by it's reactionary anti land invasion unit and law
enforcement

3. Instead of demolitiong people's structure they rather focus on
enclosing the open air toilets that they have build for people of
Makhaza as per court order from the high court.



For more info call Nosiphiwo, (c0mmunity leader) at 073 856 7518 and
for more comment call Mzonke Poni the chairperson of Abahlali
baseMjondolo Western Cape @ 073 2562 036

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