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WCCA
Campaign Background, Platform and Demands to Municipalities
StreetNet International is soliciting the
co-operation of interested organisations to join its World Class Cities
for All (WCCA) campaign in South Africa, in which StreetNet is
challenging the traditional elitist approach to building “World Class
Cities” in preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 - and seeking to
create a new, more inclusive concept of “World Class Cities for All”
with the participation of street vendors and other groups of the (urban)
poor.
The campaign will have a strong focus on women and other
vulnerable street vendors who are the first to lose their livelihoods
and the most invisible in most plans for “World Class Cities”.
WCCA Campaign Reports
International Dimension
 StreetNet
is part of the global Decent Work for Decent Life Campaign
Alliance.
Click here for the
Alliance's international campaign on FIFA World Cup in South
Africa the "National Campaign for Decent Work
Towards and Beyond 2010"
http://www.kick-for-one-world.net
In the aftermath of the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, Kick for One
World, a group of NGOs
based in Germany, have started a campaign on 2010 FIFA Games in South
Africa. Click here to read their
letter to FIFA that raises concerns on the exclusion of the urban poor (September
2008)
WCCA
Campaign RED CARD
list
17th-
19th March 2009: National Campaign Meeting: World
Class Cities for All (WCCA)
held at the Parktonian Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Report
of the WCCA National Campaign Meeting, 17th-19th March,
2009.
March
6th, 2009: WORLD CLASS
CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN - PRELIMINARY MEETING WITH
MUNICIPALITY OF Mbombela.
November 8th and 27th, 2007: The World Class Cities for
ALL
campaign is making very interesting progress as we are now
engaging into the third campaign stage, namely the negotiations
with the municipalities. In November, a World Class Cities FOR
ALL! campaign delegation met with two of the FIFA Cup Host SA
Municipalities: Cape Town on Nov 8th and Johannesburg
on Nov 22th.
Each
meeting was preliminary to the negotiation process, in the
sense that it introduced the campaign purpose and objectives,
tabled the demands, and discussed a way forward for the
negotiation. The WCCA delegation presented a proposal for a
Stakeholders' Forum (linked to demand no 6) to serve as the
basis for discussion of how to engage more systematically.
8th November,
2007: World
CLASS
CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN - PRELIMINARY MEETING WITH
MUNICIPALITY OF CAPE TOWN held at Cape Town Civic Centre .
22nd November, 2007:WORLD CLASS CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN -
MEETING with JOBURG MUNICIPALITY
7/8th March, 2007:
Johannesburg - WORLD
CLASS CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL CAMPAIGN MEETING at Orchidea
Hotel, 90 de Korte Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
Report
of National Strategising
Seminar with World Class Cities FOR ALL Campaign Partners
on
7 and 8 March 2007 in Orchidea Hotel, Braamfontein
Press Statement:
"ON THE MOVE TO 2010:
Street vendors, hawkers, unions and social
movements join forces"
26th January, 2007:
Johannesburg -
StreetNet makes
presentation on WCCA Campaign to the NEDLAC Community
Constituency meeting to discuss FIFA World Cup 2010.
28th November, 2006:
Johannesburg
- The WCCA Campaign launch in South Africa
at a press conference at COSATU Head office in Braamfontein,
Johannesburg. Announcement of the WCCA Campaign Platform
of Demands to Municipalities.
Speakers:
-
Ms
Pat Horn, International Co-ordinator, StreetNet International;
-
Fundile
Jalile, Treasurer, StreetNet International;
-
Ms
Alina Rantsolase, National Treasurer, COSATU.
Organisations
present:
-
COSATU (Alinah Rantsolase, National Treasurer)
- IMATU (Stan Chokoe, also representing FEDUSA)
- S.A. National Retailers Alliance
- NANGOSA (NGO coalition)
- SACBONET (Southern Africa Community-based Organisations
Network)
- AFITO (African Federation of Informal Traders Organisations)
- Jhb Child Welfare Society
- National (and Gauteng) Alliances of Street Children
- APF (Anti-Privatisation Forum)
- Progressive Women's Movement of S.A.
- Eastern Cape Street Vendors Alliance (affiliated to
StreetNet)
Press
release:
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN:
WORLD CLASS CITIES FOR ALL
SOUTH
AFRICAN LAUNCH
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