- Kategoria:
- Wspólne zainteresowania - Cele i przekonania
- Opis:
- To co-ordinate responses to the current crisis of xenophobic violence such as
i) circulating information
ii) assisting the many displaced people who urgently need food, shelter and other basic resources
iii) educating people against the violence
iv) engaging in acts of solidarity and protest
This group is not meant to replace the many others, but simply to link people in Durban who want to become actively involved.
Check our blog for updates:
http://durbanaction.wordpress.com/ - Typ Prywatności:
- Grupa otwarta: Jej zawartość jest publicznie dostępna.
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Durban action against Xenophobia
Join- Nazwa:
- Durban action against Xenophobia
- Kategoria:
- Wspólne zainteresowania - Cele i przekonania
- Opis:
- To co-ordinate responses to the current crisis of xenophobic violence such as
i) circulating information
ii) assisting the many displaced people who urgently need food, shelter and other basic resources
iii) educating people against the violence
iv) engaging in acts of solidarity and protest
This group is not meant to replace the many others, but simply to link people in Durban who want to become actively involved.
Check our blog for updates:
http://durbanaction.wordpress.com/ - Typ Prywatności:
- Grupa otwarta: Jej zawartość jest publicznie dostępna.
- Wiadomości:
- UPDATE 28 September 2009
On Saturday and Sunday the informal settlement in Kennedy Road was attacked in what appears to be an organised xenophobic attack on specific ethnic groups. Two people were killed and many have fled.
It looks like we may need to mobilize some humanitarian assistance and see what support we can offer.
We will be keeping you informed, but for now please follow the information updates at
http://www.abahlali.org/
You can also contact the Kennedy Road Development Committee directly
Mzwakhe Mdlalose: 072 132 8458
Anton Zamisa: 079 380 1759
Bheki Simelane: 078 598 9491
Nokutula Manyawo: 083 949 1379
Its extremely distressing that Abahlali has been targetted in these attacks, given their outstanding history of opposing xenophobic violence. Please read their statement on the xenophobic violence last year:
http://abahlali.org/node/3582
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August 14
You probably noticed that all the refugee camps around the country are being closed down today. Well, be never even had official camps in Durban, but most people have been forced to leave the places of safety here, and the remaining few will have to leave soon. So the next projects involved:
i) helping secure accomodation
ii) helping people get work again
iii) improving safety
Marjike is doing a lot of work on the first two, and if you can help at all please contact her on - she has some great projects going, and can really use some help
dutoitm@ukzn.ac.za
I am mainly working on safety - we have some plans on working with police and incident reporting, but can also use some help.
Its really important because there are still threats and serious assaults happening now.
You can just facebook me
Also, we have a really nice 24 minute documentary (Burning Man, which was showed on Special Assignment) which is useful for showing to people on the xenophobia issue (schools, churches, friends?)
Let me know if you need a copy.
June 17:
Lungisa Manzi, the city’s head of disaster management said: “The municipality does not have the mandate nor the resources to continue (sic) to sustain the requirements of those foreign nationals who have decided not to return home or to go back to their houses.”
Of course they never actually provided any of that alleged assistance, but we now know that neither the city nor the province are ever going to provide shelters, and are now planning to actively tear down the tent at Albert Park (probably on Friday 18th) and evict the refugees from the park.
CONTACTS
Shirin Motala, Civil Society Advocacy Programme
overall most informed and capable person we know of:
031 304 7323 / 083 786 8844
shirinm@mail.ngo.za smotala@sahrc.org.za
Dept. of Social Development
(for food supplies to organisations supporting displaced people).
Ms. N. Hoosen 084 468 7866.
Red Cross Disaster Manager
Cyril Vezi 073 723 5628
Police Operations Control Centre: 0800 000 596 or 031 3254720
Durban Metro Disaster Centre 031 361 0000 (speak to shift supervisor)
Billy Keyes Durban Metro Disaster Manager 031 311 4692
Eric Applegren, Durban Metro spin doctor 031 311 2124
(these numbers in no way suggest our confidence in the way city are handling the crisis!)
Diakonia Centre is co-ordinating Christian organisations and NGOs
Karen Read 031 310 3500
Durban Refugee Services Providers Network (DRSPN)
Shreylle Dass (Diakonia Centre) 031 301 0531 sherylle@lhr.org.za
University of KwaZulu-Natal internal services (only for students).
These individuals are known to be capable and sympathetic.
RMS: Peter Korte 031 260 2167
kortep@ukzn.ac.za
Student counselling: Libby Collins 031 260 2668
collinsl@ukzn.ac.za
Dean of Students: Trevor Wills 031 260 1261
wills@ukzn.ac.za
04 June: The blog is now up at
http://durbanaction.wordpress.com/
Updates will be posted there frequently so please check it at least daily. Non-facebook friends can also now access information about the crisis.
Imagine Durban has a nice blog/site up - check it out
http://www.imaginedurban.org/category/against-xenophobia/
Committee for Safety and Peacekeeping: this is a new forum of stakeholders in the city that has just been established to work on emergency responses and preventative initiatives.
our website is at
http://durbanaction.wordpress.com/
our dedicated contact email address is now:
durbancrisis@gmail.com
