Fwd: ANC Mob Depose Makause Forum with Police Support

[Rosalie Kingwill]

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From: Dirk Versfeld <di...@iafrica.com>

Date: 29 June 2011 3:15:01 PM

To: Lauren Royston <lau...@devworks.co.za>, Rosalie Kingwill <rosiek...@gmail.com>

Subject: FW: ANC Mob Depose Makause Forum with Police Support

Dear Lauren and Rosalie

Thank you for all your love and support and for your lovely talk on Saturday, Rosie.  How I miss my Tessa.

This below came from a very high-flying lawyer nephew of mine.  It is probably part of your news network anyway – but the sort of thing that I would usually be fed on and educated about by Tessa. Without her my world will be infinitely narrowed – and I must try an limit that damage.

Love

dirk

Dirk Versfeld
42 Jordaan Street, Cape Town 8001

Tel/fax:   021 4241787
Cell:       082 3774084
Email:    di...@iafrica.com

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See below for account of political developments in Makause informal settlement, Germiston over the weekend. I attach this as it has not appeared in the main- stream media and might be of interest. A repeat of what happened in Durban last year - mercifully without the killings.


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Subject: [Abahlali] ANC Mob Depose Makause Forum with Police Support

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The Makause Informal Settlement Forum in Primrose, Ekurhuleni was overthrown
today by the local ANC with the support of the SAPS. The Makause Forum is an
independent structure that had been democratically elected to represent the
community. Some individual members of the committee have links to the ISN but
the committee as a whole remains independent. The overthrow of another
community structure by an ANC mob backed with police support, brings back
painful memories for Abahlali baseMjondolo and we are in full solidarity with
the Makause Forum. We call on comrades in Johannesburg to show active support
to the comrades in Makause and for everyone in this country who calls
themselves a democrat to insist that the poor have the full right to organise
themselves autonomously from the ANC if that is their wish. This insistence
remains useless for as long as it remains abstract. Solidarity must be
concrete, a living force.

Text Message Diary of Alfred Moyo, one of the community leaders of Makause
Informal Settlement Development Forum, Primrose, Ekurhuleni

- Course of events leading to the local ANC ousting the active community
leadership, with the help of the police

30 May 2011 (evening) - I'm still well and alive. Thanks for the drafted
message on AbM website, I had an early voice recorded interview with the AbM
member and received a call from Kate (Tissington, SERI) after seeing it on AMB
web. Thanks very much for the solidarity, support, assistance and any great
efforts to aid is highly appreciated. 'More Fire' - Aluta Continua.

11 June 2011 (afternoon) - The struggle continues, I'm currently
coordinating two major projects and a third one is to start on Monday (high
mast lighting, 148 trees felling and comprehensive cleaning / waste removal)
while also waiting the approval of the proposal to the SDI for the water pipe
and other materials for the water project (without the municipality). Those
three projects were the election campaign jobs for the ANC cadres. All the
projects as community as we want them, they'll create a non-divided society
mixed gender about 154 jobs will be benefitting the community of Makause
through the Makause leadership, non party political. ANC misled and used the
community, and are now trying to join me.

15 June 2011 (evening) - This coming I've a meeting with the Tree Cutting
Contractor to sort out some challenges for the project's sake.

19 June 2011 (morning) - The ANC is calling a community meeting for the
election of the new leadership to overthrow the current leadership, they are
mobilising based on the same allegations. I'm not available to attend as
I'm attending the UJ conference which started yesterday till tomorrow, but I
saw and heard them loud-hailing on my way out to catch the taxi to Khanya
College where today's session will be held.

19 June 2011 (lunch time) - Latest: the ANC group have stopped the tree
cutting project saying they are the leadership of the area and they don't
know me or anything about the project in the settlement.

19 June 2011 (evening) - The meeting (of the ANC) was not properly planned,
coordinated, supported and attended, so the election was postponed for next
Sunday (26th), they are waiting for the aid of the SACP and they also
threatened the community with the Red Ants by Friday.

19 June 2011 (evening) - Yes, Primrose branch in Ward 21 Ekurhuleni. The PCO
Office is in Alberton, they said they are going to call the Red Ants themselves
and their main target is me, as they heard I'm coordinating it, so they tell
the workers that I ran away knowing that the project should be stopped today.

24 June (morning) - Latest: the ANC bid to overthrow us is still ongoing but
this time the community is seeing through the negative motives. On Wednesday
afternoon I called an urgent mass meeting to inform the community about their
intentions, aims and objectives about all these allegations and also about
development programmes made by the current leadership as far as the land
negotiation is concerned. Yesterday they (ANC) called a mass meeting to try to
mobilise the community for an illegal march to disturb the office opening for
the Councillor. The community never followed as they follow us.

24 June 2011 (evening) - Today, I challenged the Germiston hospital for the
case of an indigent family whom the hospital was refusing to give the body of
their loved one who passed on - was to be buried over this weekend, but the
hospital demanded R1 160, owed by the dead person and her daughter, so my
involvement came with an argument of releasing the body by Monday to be buried,
by an Indigent Policy of the hospital to motivate for that and to forget unpaid
bills. Tomorrow ANC is electing new leadership to overthrow the Development
Forum and Monday they bring the Red Ants to destroy shacks and attack us, as
they are mobilising the community.

25 June 2011 (evening) - Latest: Primrose SAPS has joined the ANC in a bid to
overthrow the Development Forum. Today the SAPS van was loud-hailing ANC
meeting tomorrow for the election of new leadership to take up the office and
Absalom Budeli, the failed ANC ward candidate has been promising and recruiting
some patrol members (organising the patrol has been our initiative) to join
them as they've a budget for them to run the office, and on Monday they'll
be joined by SAPS and Red Ants to destroy people's homes. The current
leadership won't even attend such a meeting, as SAPS has started such threats
before and they were reported to SERI. We have our meeting on Monday with other
organisations, solidarity support.

26 June 2011 (noon) - We're under attack from the ANC.

26 June 2011 (late afternoon) - Today ANC helped by SAPS led the mob from the
sports grounds to our offices to force us to attend their meeting. The mob was
mobilised to attack and destroy our container office donated to us by DRD
Gold-SA. But they also sent the SAPS to demand that we attend their meeting.
The SAPS arrived at our container office before the mob, so the mob couldn't
attack us. We went to the meeting with the SAPS. After holding corrupt
elections, they demanded the container office keys from me through SAPS (Sector
Crime Forum Manager Mr/Inspector Mhlaku who was loud hailing yesterday for
today's meeting). We had no option but to hand over the keys. The police came
in big numbers to witness the ANC overthrowing us, they failed to call off the
meeting as we had requested of them.

26 June 2011 (evening) - Latest: ANC has informed the SAPS about today's
event through a letter they submitted to them a week ago, and the list of the
candidates were already drafted, so today it was about taking over the office
keys and they tried to demand our documents but we refused on that. The SAPS
acting station commander is the person who approved today's craziness. They
are actually trying to disturb our land negotiations which are at provincial
level. They made threats of burning our shacks and starting attacks on
Somalians' shops (xenophobia) in front of the SAPS. Tomorrow I'll be at
SERI for advice on this (after first following up on the hospital case). In
connection with our container office, we will request DRD Gold-SA to repossess
it. Our challenge is to remobilise the community as it is now divided. Patrick
Magebula from ISN has been planning to visit Makause tomorrow (for the project
of water pipes), but we're not sure with the current situation.

Contact: Alfred Moyo (General) - 0734307006, gener...@gmail.com------------
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