The Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA) would like to respond to the statement issued by the eThekwini Municipality on Media Reports of a Racial Slur at Early Morning Market Meeting
11 August 2009 The Socialist Party of Azania (SOPA) would like to respond to the statement issued by the eThekwini Municipality regarding the racialist and ethnic undertones that the party and other organizations involved in the Early Morning Market Support Group detected from the statements of the eThekwini Municipality and Obed Mlaba in particular at […]
Early Morning Market Traders walkout of City Hall meeting
12 August 2009 Dear Comrades Today (Wed 12 August 2009) was a glorious day in Durban. But first… we must acknowledge our revolutionary comrades in the EMM Support Group for challenging racist rhetoric and informing the world, in the face of official denials. This has helped sensitise City Hall to the dangers of lapsing into […]
KZN Provincial Task Team Report – EMM opposes the privatisation of Early Morning Market
28 August 2009 The KZN Provincial Task Team (PTT) report is a major disappointment, giving as it does the green light to the eThekwini municipal officials and the capitalist property developers to fast track their plans to confiscate the market site, demolish the market and build in its place a mall. The report pretends to […]
Court challenge to halt city`s planned closure of the Warwick Early Morning Market
11 July 2009 "Barrow traders challenge city", The Mercury, Tanya Broughton. The Early Morning Market Traders Association who have brought three court orders against the Ethekwini Municipality to allow informal traders into the market to trade, has been awarded costs which means the city must pay the legal costs. Members of the EMMA have been […]
Barrow Pushers at Warwick Market…
12 July 2009 …a new target in the Ethekwini`s war on the market`s informal workers and traders who oppose demolition of the market, were told that they could not enter the market unless they had permits. They refused as they had never had permits before as service providers in the market. The Metro Police blocked […]
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 […]
