Zille government fails to deliver Housing in the Western Cape
The SACP is appalled but not surprised at the failure of Zille’s government to deliver decent human settlements to inhabitants in the Western Cape. The SACP knew that Zille and de Lille will fail the working class and the poor people of the Western Cape in terms of meeting their most basic needs including providing shelter. This right is enshrined in the Bill of Rights in our beloved Constitution. There is a string of examples of this flagrant failure to honour the needs of the people for decent housing in the province. The residents of Hangberg last year demanded housing and the DA failed to deliver but instead sent police to brutalise and violate their rights to shelter. The same treatment was meted out to the residents of Mitchell’s Plain. Currently, the peoples of Blokombos have also been jailed for demanding a constitutionally enshrined right to decent shelter. The residents of Dedoorans also face the same challenges of inadequate shelter or lack of access to housing and related services. These working class communities have been subjected to police brutality and the courts are being used to silence people’s demands by the Zille administration. As the SACP, we say the criminal justice system has many cases to resolve and the DA should deliver on the people’s demands and not abdicate its responsibility to residents of the Western Cape. The SACP condemns the actions by Zille and de Lille, respectively, for denying people the most basic services. The DA is a proxy for the white middle class who continue to enjoy access to land to build lavish complexes and malls whilst the poor do not even have access to basic services. The vast tracts of land are used to advance the accumulation interests of the rich at the expense of the poor. The City of Cape Town underspent millions in its capital budget and yet it claims that there is no money to build houses for the poor communities. This is unacceptable! The SACP will continue to support the struggles of the poor for access to basic services including housing, sanitation, water, electricity and refuse collection. Benson ka-Ngqentsu Brian Bunting District Secretary 0827966400 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
