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DARK CLOUD LOOMS: Law enforce ment and police are expected to de scend on Rondebosch Common this weekend as thousands of people from poorer areas plan to attend an illegal summit. Photo: AdriAnn Peters
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HOUSANDS of people from poorer communities are expected to attend a mass-meeting and “take over” Rondebosch Common recreational area during the weekend – despite no authorisation being granted for the gathering. Although the City has warned that the meeting will be regarded as an illegal gathering and organisers may face criminal prosecution, plans for the occupation are being finalised and contributors are determined to go ahead, despite the repercussions. Participants from Hanover Park, Pinati Estate, Mitchell’s Plain, Manenberg, Lavender Hill, Hout Bay, Gugulethu, Athlone, Bonteheuwel, Delft and even Stellenbosch, will march from the Athlone Stadium to the common, for the three-day summit on Friday. Topics to be covered during the summit includes a call for the development of open spaces in “the leafy suburbs”, the scrapping of rent arrears for those occupying council properties, as well as a demand for the City to transfer ownership of its rental units to the tenants. Organiser Mario Wanza says the occupation of the Rondebosch Common is symbolic of all spaces in affluent areas which are underutilized while “people on the Cape Flats don’t have space to move. “The coming together of civil society organisations reminds us of the days of united democratic action in taking forward the struggle. We have once again reached the point of building a united front, this time to rid ourselves of the divide between rich and poor. The common is a stark reminder
of this barrier dividing us. “It is a public open space which is hardly ever used by the rich to walk their dogs. This is happening while the poor are living on top of each other only a few suburbs away. Those with money have the luxury of acres of land at their disposal and it’s about time this spatial inequality is properly challenged,” he says. “Cape Town is still as divided as it was during the apartheid era”, Wanza continues. “The poor live a different life compared to the those in privileged areas. These areas have hectares of manicured lawns, used for golf courses and other luxuries, while there is a desperate need for
land to be developed in order to provide housing for people who have been on waiting lists for years. It’s time that these areas are integrated.” But while the organisers are finalising the details before the mass action, the City said that staff will be on site to discourage people from using the area illegally. Richard Bosman, the City’s director for Safety and Security, says a meeting was arranged for Wednesday, so that organisers and the City can sit down and allow the applicants to motivate their application and answer questions. “The group was between 15 and
30 minutes late. The panel assumed that they were not coming and continued with the afternoon’s proceedings. A letter was sent to the organisers on 19 January, indicating that no permission for the march and/or gathering had been granted.” In addition to the summit, a march to the common will also take place on Friday. The first participants will meet at the lookout hill in Rocklands at 07:00 that morning, and will walk through through Mitchell’s Plain to Manenberg. The group will meet with Heideveld, Bishop Lavis and Valhalla Park participants out-
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side Manenberg police station, and proceed to the corner of Vanguard and Klipfontein Road, where Bonteheuwel and Langa participants will assemble. Muslims will be excused to attend mosque. All participants will assemble at Athlone Stadium at 14:00. That same morning, participants from Stellenbosch, Kraaifontein, Bloekombos, Elsies River and Ruyterwacht will gather at Goodwood station and march past the Epping market along Jan Smuts Drive to Athlone Stadium. The group will then march to Rondebosch Common, and are expected to arrive at 17:00. Bosman says that despite an application being made for the march, the City has informed the organisers that approval has not been granted. No safety plans has been lodged with the police. Wanza adds that Mayor Patricia De Lille’s “disinterest” in attending the summit shows that “not even she is interested in finding solutions to the plight of the poor.” But De Lille responds that she had already committed to another engagement long before the organisers sent the invitation. The Mayor’s Office advised the organisers that their request could not be considered until formal approval for the gathering had been granted in terms of the relevant legislation. It was further pointed out that the threat to occupy state and privately owned land is fundamentally illegal and therefore could not be supported by the Mayor in any way.
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