Early Morning Market Support Group update and meeting times
20 July 2009 Dear Friends/Comrades, Yesterday, one month after being beaten and shot at in the Early Morning Market, the market community, all 1200 or so of them, took to the streets of Durban in proletarian solidarity with the striking municipal bus employees and Unemployed People’s Union. The almost 3 hour protest march through West […]
Countdown to stop the forced removals – 4 Days To Go!
22 July 2009 EMM Strategy Meeting @ Cane-Growers Hall at ML Sultan – Tuesday 28 July 2008 at 6pm The sustained public outcry and opposition to the destruction of the iconic early morning market and the forced relocation of traders has been unprecedented in Durban in the democratic era. Traders, street vendors, unions, civics, NGOS, […]
Guarantee Warwick market site for future generations of market gardeners and informal traders!!!
24 July 2009 The eThekwini Municipality has announced that they intend to demolish the Warwick Early Morning Market on the 31st July 2009, and in its place they want to give a 50-year lease to private property developers to build another capitalist mall. The traders in the Early Morning Market (and surrounding areas, including Warwick […]
Durban: EMM Strategy Meeting @ Cane-Growers Hall at ML Sultan
28 July 2008 The sustained public outcry and opposition to the destruction of the iconic early morning market and the forced relocation of traders has been unprecedented in Durban in the democratic era. Traders, street vendors, unions, civics, NGOS, architects, planners, academics and researchers have been united in condemning the destruction and displacement as this […]
Resolutions Adopted at the Special Public Meeting called by the 1860 Heritage Legacy Foundation on Tuesday 28 July 2009 at the ML Sultan Campus of the Durban University of Technology
28 July 2009 1.That this meeting noting with great alarm the Durban Municipality`s senior officials , inter alia Mayor, Obed Mlaba and Dr M. Sutcliffe use of anti-Indian and racist sentiments to divide the city’s communities opposition to the destruction of the Early Morning Market (EMM), calls upon the Human Rights Commission to investigate statements […]
World Class Cities for All (WCCA) press conference on Warwick Early Morning Market crisis
29 July 2009 The Press conference, held at Justice Hall, Diakonia Centre, Durban, was addressed by the following WCCA Partners` representatives: 1. Pat Horn, Co-ordinator Street Net International. 2. Veliswa Mqhokwana – Siyazizamela vendors` organisation (representing vendors who were displaced by the Umlazi Mega-City Mall) 3. Sagie Naidoo – Early Morning Market Traders` Association 4. […]
Message of solidarity to Durban WCCA from UNISON Community & Voluntary Branch, Ireland
31 July 2009 The UNISON Community & Voluntary Branch, Ireland, extends our support and solidarity to your campaign and wishes you all the success in your protest on 31st July 2009. To object to a model of economic growth which defines its success in terms of rising levels of inequality and poverty for those in […]
Durban: Warwick Early Morning market traders decided to close the market themselves today when city officials denied entry to traders who did not have permits.
3 June 2009 Harry Ramlal, EMM Committee Chairperson said many African traders do not have permits, and that to put a stop to the city’s efforts to divide traders, all market traders walked out to join those who were refused entry outside in protest. This comes ahead of a meeting with City Manager Mike Sutcliffe […]
Durban: Removal date of market traders is postponed
1 June 2009 "Removal date postponed. Market traders will go, vows city", by Sinegugu Ndlovu, The Mercury, Edition 2 THE eThekwini Municipality says that ratepayers would have had to fund the development of Durban`s Warwick Junction if it had not been for private developers. This after a tense clash between Metro Police and Early Morning […]
Durban: Negotiations with City Manager – “Yes to Development that includes informal traders and no to demolition of Early Morning Market”
4 June 2009 WCCA Campaign task team negotiations meeting on Memorandum of Demands was held yesterday (3rd June 2009) at Durban City Hall at 2.30-pm. WCCA Campaign task team representatives comprised EMM Market Association, Informal Traders` organisations, SACP leadership, COSATU provincial leadership, SANCO, AMAFA, School of Development Studies, UKZN. The city was represented by city […]
