Quote of the week
Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
August and Another v Electoral Commission and Others (CCT8/99) [1999] ZACC 3
Mass Rally on 25 September on informal settlement strike in western Cape
A call for a week of informal settlement strike
UPDATE ON A MEETING HELD AT ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO WC OFFICE
THE MEETING THAT WAS HELD AT QQ SECTION, ABM WC OFFICES ON THE 11TH SEPTEMBER (SATURDAY) WHERE MORE THAN 15 INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS ATTENDED THE MEETING.
AND THE MEETING RESOLVED THAT
1. A MEMORANDUM MUST BE WRITTEN TO THE MINISTER OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT TOKYO SEXWALE .
Ø A MEMORUNDUM BE WRITTEN ALSO TO MEC FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS BONGINGOSI MADIKIZELA
Ø AND A LAST MEMORUNDUM BE WRITTEN TO CITY OF CAPE TOWN MAYOR DAN PLATO
2. IT WAS ALSO RESOLVED THAT A MASS RALLY MUST BE HELD AT VE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT ON THE 25TH SEPTEMBER 2010 AT 11:AM AS A BUILD UP ACTIVITY TOWARDS THE WEEK OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENT STRIKE
3. AND IT WAS ALSO RESOLVED THAT AFTER THE WEEK OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENT STRIKE A COLLECTIVE ACTION OR JOINT ACTION MUST BE IMPLEMENTED AND IT WAS AGREED THAT THE MUCH TO PARLAMENT MUST TAKE PLACE.
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