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From: "Anna Weekes" <anna at union.org.za> Subject: DEBATE: 100 cops now evicting one Tafelsig family! To: debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.3.4.7 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:52:05 +0200
DEBATERS PLEASE ASSIST
phone the City Manager on 021 400 1111 or 021 4001300 and demand that this stop! your calls will help a lot!
Tafelsig Anti-Eviction Campaign Newsflash Tuesday 19th June 2001 09h36
100 law enforcers currently evicting one family in Tafelsig!
There are about 100 law enforcers currently in Tafelsig evicting one family in Plattekloof Street! The law enforcers are made up of the Mitchell's Plein police, the Crime Prevention Unit from Pretoria, the Sheriff, the Municipal Law Enforcement, All Guard Security Company, the Neighbourhood Watch of Mitchell's Plein and also the Scorpions.
Yesterday, residents received a letter signed by all the above agencies granting the Neighbourhood Watch the authority to evict families.
The family's belongings have been dumped in the road.
According to eviction schedules in the possession of the Tafelsig Anti-Eviction Campaign, 7 families in Tafelsig, 2 in Beacon Valley and 3 in East Ridge will still be evicted today.
There are 51 eviction orders for families living in Delft that will also be carried out today.
Local Anti-Eviction Campaign Co-ordinator, Ishmael Petersen, has been threatened with arrest if he goes near the scene of the eviction. This is unconstitutional and it is also unknown at this stage whether the eviction notices served on the Plattekloof Street family and the 63 other families are legal. Lately the Sheriff's department has been serving eviction notices on the children of the house, which is completely illegal.
The Campaign is highly disturbed that massive numbers of law enforcers have been unleashed against Tafelsig, which lit a spark for other anti-eviction campaigns to emerge across the city. There is now a full scale campaign of intimidation in the area.
Yesterday, the elderly Mrs Lategan, was sentenced to 2.5 years correctional services for illegal occupation of her house, just because she went back home after being evicted in a high publicity case last year. Mrs Lategan now has to suffer the humiliation of being homeless as well as reporting in daily to the police station.
The Campaign appeals for media attention on this matter.
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For comment phone Ishmael Petersen on 021 3976386 --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]
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