Residents have agreed to halt a land occupation which started in Vrygrond on the weekend. This comes after 15 residents, including community leaders, met with Mayor Patricia de Lille on Wednesday, GroundUp reported. "We tabled our issues with the mayor," said community leader Daniel Nomavile. "We explained to her that land is a need in the community where people are dependent on social grants and are unable to pay rent […]
Disputes over housing in Khayelitsha spilled over on Sunday when people set alight and vandalised a community centre that contains the local ward councillor's office. They also vandalised the councillor's house. GroundUp reported that these acts were in response to the Anti-Land Invasion Unit attempting to stop a land occupation near Monwabisi Beach in Endlovini by several dozen people. The occupiers are fighting to be part of an upcoming housing […]
Tensions simmered in Khayelitsha on Monday as residents flouted interdicts preventing occupation of open land at a number of sites. The land occupations in Khayelitsha this past week are among the biggest in Cape Town in recent years, GroundUp reported. "We are fed up with empty promises. We have to take action," said Thando Mtombo, a backyarder in Town Two. Many backyarders say they have lived their whole lives on […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
