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Backyarders not happy with ‘Madam Zille’

3 April, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Helen Zille

Dear Editor The recent statement made by Helen Zille which refers to Eastern Cape migrants as refugees and her subsequent justification of the term, illustrate her failure to understand how apartheid has misguided not only those blacks who were and continue to be oppressed, but also privileged white people. On Sunday, Zille appeared on Radio Zibonele in Khayelitsha saying that she was not aware that her statement would create anger and frustration amongst black people. This explanation … [Read more...]

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Cape Town Beating of SABC Cameraman – ANC Under Fire

24 February, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The entire nation should be shocked by the reports that a SABC cameramen has been severely beaten up and is in hospital because he was filming the ANC centennial celebration in Cape Town where a violent confrontation is reported to have taken place between ANC factions. Reportedly, he was beaten up when he refused to switch off his camera. This is a terrible attack on press freedom. This is not an isolated incident, but the reflection of an growing mindset within the ANC which has expressed … [Read more...]

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Khayelitsha Residents Arrested for Tyre Burning Outside new Khayelitsha Hospital

10 January, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Mandela Park Backyarders write: Earlier this morning a group of Khayelitsha residents showed up in front of the brand new Khayelitsha Hopsital to protest against the refusal of hospital authorities to hire local people from amongst the recent estimated 70,000 job applications. Estimates are that only 2%-10% of staff hired at the hospital are from the Khayelitsha area. Almost 100 people converged in front of the hospital. They closed the road and burned tyres in order to show government … [Read more...]

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Kaapse Twilight

25 November, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Kaapstad Twilight

Just where do the guys get the time to think this stuff up? Twilight (Twilight Saga) NewMint ConditionDispatch same day for order received before 12 noonGuaranteed packagingNo quibbles returns An electrifying debut novel of a young woman's love for a vampire. List Price: £7.99 Price: Twilight [DVD] The big-screen adaptation of Twilight, Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire romance, is aimed squarely at its key demographic: teen girls whose idea of Prince … [Read more...]

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To Condemn People who Occupy Land is to Condemn the Poor

27 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment

We note that yesterday, the 25th September 2011, the City of Cape Town's reactionary and often violent Anti-Land Invasion Unit, with a help of Law Enforcement, Metro Police and South African Police Service demolished more than 100 structures at Kraaifontein. These structures had been erected by backyarders on an open field that had remained an unused piece of land for more than 17 years. In some countries unused land is considered to be public land. Here in South Africa the state will always … [Read more...]

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The Need for Dialogue on Hate Speech

22 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Dave Steward & Adv Jacques du Preez from the FW de Klerk Foundation give their view: The reaction to Justice Colin Lamont's judgment on 12 September regarding the 'Shoot the boer' song reveals the depth of the divisions that continue to exist between black and white South Africans. Most white South Africans regard the judgment as vindication of their view that the song does, indeed, constitute hate speech. Black South Africans, on the other hand, vehemently reject the judgment as an … [Read more...]

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Second Open Letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille

22 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Dear Mayor de Lille Thank you for the reply from your chief of staff to our letter dated 12 September. We have now had time to circulate it amongst our members and to discuss it carefully. We do appreciate your invitation for the leadership of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape to meet with the mayor. There has, after so many years of struggle in Durban, been no such invitation from any mayor in Durban and we note and appreciate your willingness to meet with us. As we have … [Read more...]

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An Open Letter to Mayor Patricia De Lille from the Abahlali baseMjondolo

9 September, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Dear Mayor de Lille I wish, at the outset, to make it clear that we, as Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, and the many organisations in solidarity with us across Cape Town, appreciate some aspects of your speech yesterday. We appreciate the fact that you acknowledge that shack dwellers, including backyarders, are living as we are as a result of a history of oppression and not because there is something wrong with us. Once this fact is acknowledged then it becomes obvious that we … [Read more...]

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iStore Fail

6 July, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I went to the iStore in the V&A to get my iMac fixed and the tech guy took my computer to assess what was wrong and give me a quote. A week later, after calling for him several times, he finally got back to me. The quote I received was for R4200. I called up a few places and quickly discovered that their quotes – for the same problem – were all about R2000 less that the iStore’s quote (!). Needless to say, I took my computer to someone else and when he opened it, it took him no less … [Read more...]

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