100 days to go – and the urban poor ask what happened to fair play?
2 March 2010 “Why should the poor be marginalised even further, or `disappeared` in the clean-up programmes in preparation for the arrival of the football fans? With 100 days to go before the games open, official action towards the urban poor fails to meet any standard of fair play,” said Pat Horn, StreetNet International coordinator […]
Nelson Mandela Bay – Street and market trader leaders from Mozambique and Zimbabwe to address Anti-Xenophobia workshop in Port Elizabeth
23th February 2010 “We are demanding the inclusion of the urban poor in the preparations and plans for the World Cup FIFA Games being hosted in South Africa during June and July 2010,” Paul Shambira said today on the occasion of the inauguration of a first of a series of events to call for a […]
FIFA Games must be Xenophobia-free
19 February 2010 The World Class Cities For ALL (WCCA) Campaign calls for host cities to ensure a Xenophobia-free World Cup in 2010. The WCCA Campaign is an international campaign that is demanding the inclusion of the urban poor in the preparations and plans for the World Cup FIFA Games being hosted in South Africa […]
Cape Town: Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
18 February 2010 March to Support Informal Trading CHATA will be joining the Western Cape Informal Traders Coalition in a march on Tuesday, February 23, 2009. The March will begin from Kaizerchrat in Cape Town at 9am to proceed to the City Building. CHATA has encouraged its members not to collect their permits due to […]
May 1, 2010: International Labour Day, WCCA Campaign Press Statement: World Class Cities for ALL (WCCA) Campaign
StreetNet International In South Africa, May Day 2010 is being celebrated just 42 days before the kick-off of the long-awaited African FIFA World Cup. In India, May Day 2010 is being celebrated 6 months in advance of the Commonwealth Games which will take place in Delhi in October. What do the workers (formal and informal) […]
May 1, 2010: International Labour Day – StreetNet calls on host cities to work with vendors’ organizations so that FIFA games benefit the urban poor – not just McDonalds
“Football fans are not travelling to South Africa just to eat McDonalds and Starbucks which they can get back home. But the FIFA Local Organising Committee has set up exclusion zones where South African vendors, and our migrant communities, providing authentic African food have no place. Instead it’s the big food chains, the official sponsoring […]
WCCA Campaign Press Release May 1, 2010
International Labour Day – Workshops on the problem of Xenophobia to be hosted in Pretoria and Cape Town The World Class Cities For All (WCCA) Campaign is requesting firm commitments and action from municipal authorities to address the needs of the urban poor so as to halt more attacks against foreigners. "Host cities should establish […]
