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From: tracey saunders
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:47 PM
This couldn’t possibly be a statement from the same ANC which was in charge of Provincial government in the Western Cape in October 2008?????
It surely can’t be the same organisation for which Hildegaard Fast was the spokesperson and who issued the following statement in October last year:
“Fast said her response would be consistent with what the province and city have said all along: “The closure process has started at Blue Waters. As the people get their reintegration assistance, they are provided with transport from the camp and we immediately take down the tents as they leave.”"
(http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3069&art_id=vn20081031053543337C663243
Surely not ????????
Eviction of refugees in Cape Town breach of SADC treaty – ANC
Posted on 5/28/2009 11:42:00 AM
The African National Congress (ANC) is appalled and condemns a decision by the Democratic Alliance-led City of Cape Town to evict 461 refugees settling at the Blue Waters site on the Cape Flats without offer of alternative accommodation.
A court application by the municipality for the eviction of the refugees – all victims of last year’s xenophobic violence – has now been postponed to 9 June 2009.
The ANC calls on the City of Cape Town to – as a matter of urgency – interact on the matter with Home Affairs, organs of civil society and other relevant bodies to ensure that no refugee family is left in the streets during the cold winter.
The refugees, some of whom have lost friends and relatives in the xenophobic violence that swept across the country, have already suffered enough pain.
Evicting them is a breach of the SADC Treaty on refugees and our obligation as a country to act in accordance with human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
