Freedom Park residents march to demand housing
Freedom Park residents demand housing for the less fortunate.
The spotlight was cast on the housing crisis in South Africa, by the Freedom Park backyard Dwellers Association on September 3. They mobilised the affected residents to march against alleged police harassment and to demand land.
The march saw participants handing a memorandum to David Makhura, Premier of Gauteng and coincided with the 32nd anniversary of the 1984 Vaal uprising which proposed rent increases by the Black-run town council resulting in the killing of three township councillors as well as the deputy mayor.
Marchers gathered at the Freedom Park Primary School at 9 am and set out from Freedom Park to nearby Eldorado Estates, known locally as ‘Bushkoppies’ which is at the centre of the demand for land.
Homeless people have started occupying the land in ‘Bushkoppies’ since July this year and are demanding that the land be allocated to the homeless for the purposes of providing shelter to destitute citizens.
