Trevor Ngwane -The Mercury- July 22, 2009 SHOUTS of “Hamba khaya! Hamba uye eBombay!” (Go home! Go to Bombay!) rang out, seemingly crystallising the mood of some of those at the public meeting called by the Durban city fathers at the ICC on July 10. The meeting concerned the impending closure of the Early Morning [...]
Tag Archives: Durban
URGENT anti-Xenophobia action in Durban
November 1, 2008
Refugees still living in Durban’s Albert Park were confronted by SAPS this morning who came to remove their shelters (a small number of displaced foreign nationals have refused re-integration into communities and repatriation efforts, even from the UNHCR, have been rejected). Read here below an email sent by Oliver Meth to History Matters: Early Saturday [...]
The social value of land must come first
August 28, 2008
There has been considerable discussion after the announcement that the eThekwini Municipality is considering expropriating land from Tongaat-Hulett to finally move ahead with the long promised Cornubia development. We all know that in Durban, as in cities around the country, the question of housing is the biggest source of conflict between poor people’s organisations and [...]
July 23, 2009
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