Housing collective plans march in city next month to demand housing for the poor
Activists, unions leaders and residents of other"dark buildings" in Johannesburg's inner-city will protest next month to demand urgent steps be taken to provide dignified housing for poor people.
This comes a couple of weeks after 77 people died and many others were injured when the 80 Albert Street building burnt down. The occupied building was one of the inner city's"dark buildings". This was agreed at a meeting on Saturday outside the Library Gardens in the city centre where attendees discussed ways to avoid yet another deadly disaster. At least 77 people died and many others were injured in theA statement by the Inner-City Federation, the main organiser of the event, said that the deaths were a consequence of a failure of the government to address poverty, unemployment and the acute housing shortage.
"This tragedy must be laid at the doorstep of the political elite who continue to plunder state resources through corruption and mismanagement. They have also jumped on the rising bandwagon of xenophobia we are experiencing in South Africa, blaming"undocumented migrants" for the fire," said President of GIWUSA Mametlwe Sebei, while reading out a memorandum.
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