16 January – Human Rights

Today we spoke to Ashraf Cassiem from the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign. About 300 shackdwelling residents face a forced removal by the City of Cape Town to a wasteland without water, roads, sanitation, electricity, clinics, schools or transport in two weeks time. The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign and the Cape Town Anti-War Coalition have condemned the apartheid style forced removal practices and they say they demand an end to the use of hundreds of police in unjust evictions, and houses for all. If you want more information about the evictions you can contact Ashraf at 082 480 5489 or Eleanor Hoedemaker from the Zille Rain Heights Residents Association at 072 4490436. If you want to hear more about this issue – make sure that you listen to newsline on Thursday at 7 o’clock in the evening or the rerun on Friday at 8PM, Thando Mfengwana will be speaking to different parties involved including Cosatu regional secretary Tony Ehrenreich about his call for land invasion.

And we also spoke to Siphelo Guwa – coordinator of the Langa tennis club. We were talking about children participation. According to the UN Convention, children have the right to participate in decision - making, and that due weight should be given to their opinions, according to their age and maturity. For more information about the Langa Tennis Club or if you want to join them you can contact Siphelo at 073 342 9142.

And our last interview was with Brian Kruger from Cape Town Pride. PRIDE is an International Brand that has featured on the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered & Intersexed, event calendars World-wide for the past number of years. Their mission statement is to celebrate and strengthen the pride that members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities have in themselves, their diversity and their city as is done in most of the major cities of the world. And they will be organising the 11- day annual Cape Town Pride Festival. For more information about the festival you can contact Brian Kruger or Ian Mc Mahon at 425 6461 or 083 274 3579 or visit their website at www.capetownpride.co.za

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