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| Call Number: |
A1.9.4.7_20080712SS |
| Identifier: |
AL3290_A1.9.4.7_20080712SS |
| Title: |
'Hear our voices' |
| Date: |
12 July 2008 |
| Subject: |
Anti-Privatisation Forum - APF;
Freedom Square;
Housing;
Kliptown Concerned Residents;
Poverty;
Sanitation;
Service delivery;
Sunday Star;
Townships |
| Description: |
This article titled "Hear our voices" appeared in the Sunday Star of July 12, 2008. The community of Kliptown in Soweto holds a special place in South Africa's liberation history - it was the site of the 'Congress of the People' gathering in the 1950s that led to the adoption of the Freedom Charter and also a place where Nelson Mandela hid from the apartheid forces. And yet, Kliptown has remained - in the post-apartheid period - one of the poorest and least serviced communities with a severe lack of housing and basic services (where the bucket system of sanitation continues). Most of the community struggles that have occurred have been led by the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) community affiliate Kliptown Concerned Residents. This picture and brief article relate to the ongoing contradictions of Kliptown, where a multi-million 'Freedom Square' has been constructed side-by-side with the grinding poverty of shack dwellers.
Included in SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Transition's Child: The Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF)' |
| Contributor: |
Photographer: Cara Vierecki |
| Type: |
Newspaper article |
| Format: |
Access copy - pdf
Preservation copy - tiff |
| Source: |
SAHA collection AL3290 |
| Language: |
English |
| Coverage: |
Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa |
| Rights: |
Sunday Star |
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