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No Land! No House! No Vote! - Voices from Symphony Way (Paperback)
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No Land! No House! No Vote! - Voices from Symphony Way (Paperback)
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Loot Price R594
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Many outside South Africa imagine that after Mandela was freed and
the ANC won free elections all was well. But the last two decades
have led to increased poverty and inequality. Although a few black
South Africans have become wealthy, for many the struggle against
apartheid never ended because the ethos of apartheid continues to
live. Early in 2007 hundreds of families living in shacks in Cape
Town were moved into houses they had been waiting for since the end
of apartheid. But soon they were told that the move had been
illegal and they were kicked out of their new homes. They built
shacks next to the road opposite the housing project and hundreds
organised themselves into the Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign,
vowing to stay on the road until the government gave them permanent
housing. This anthology is both testimony and poetry. There are
stories of justice miscarried, of violence domestic and public, of
bigotry and xenophobia. But amid the horror there is beauty:
relationships between aunties, husbands, wives and children;
daughters named Hope and Symphony. This book is a means to dignity,
a way for the poor to reflect and be reflected. It is testimony
that there's thinking in the shacks, that there are humans who
dialogue, theorise and fight to bring about change.
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