There are 5,344 migrant labourers, mostly in Bengaluru, from the rest of the state. The KSRTC on Saturday managed to send around 3,000 people in 120 interdistrict buses. However, Rao told TNSE, “Everything is under control. Instead, they all came to Majestic,” an official said.
“The police were to inform workers at these camps that after BBMP screening, a BMTC bus would take them to bus stands and railway stations. According to a source, City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao said the police department had listed all the labourers’ camps where a sub-inspector was in charge of collating names and Aadhaar details under the guidance of an ACP. Officials told TNSE that there was a lack of communication from the police department.ĭ圜M Laxman Savadi reportedly held a video-conference with officials and the corporations on measures to be taken. While Suresh Kumar admitted to the chaos and the d e p a r t m e n t b e i n g unprepared, KSRTC officials blamed the police for the mess. I do not have enough money for essentials,” said Kumar, a labourer at a camp in Mahadevapura. Since it is on hold, I thought I will wait till the end of the lockdown. Though CM B S Yediyurappa and P r i m a r y a n d Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar tried to get the labourers to stay, promising work, several wanted to leave. With no work since many days, some labourers struggled to pay even that. Those who wanted to take a bus were to be charged two-way fare, but after opposition from the public, the government decided to charge them only one-way fare. This shows lack of planning,” Vinay Sreenivasa contended. Instead of labelling people as “invaders” or their actions as a “scourge”, City officials would do well to consider this.“Even the women’s toilet was shut as there was no water. On the contrary, they want a small piece of land in the city to call their own where they can simply survive they want to be beneficiaries of the property clause in the Bill of Rights. None of the people we talked to are involved in a revolution to overturn the Constitution’s property rights. Of course unabated land occupations are unsustainable. There are no easy fixes to these problems, but the occupations show us how urgent it is to scale up public housing efforts, and how important the campaigns of activist groups like the Social Justice Coalition and Reclaim the City are. In Dunoon our reporter spoke to backyarders who said landlords had increased their rents, making it unaffordable to stay. My mom wants to bring her boyfriend to spend time with her in the shack, so she needs space and some privacy, … I also want to have my own place.” She says she can’t afford to fork out R400 for rent and R100 for electricity monthly. She rents a shack with her mother and her child. “When I’m about to bathe or change a pad, I must ask my sisters to leave so that I can have some privacy. Zandiswa Maphutheni stays in a shack with her two sisters. “I have realised that I could buy food with the money.” Zanele Nqophiso says she can no longer afford to pay her landlord R500 for rent and electricity. Here is what some people who have taken part in occupations have told us: When they see empty land it is a rational response to try to live on it. They are often unemployed and battling to survive. Many of the occupiers live in shacks in the backyards of formal homeowners, to whom they pay rent. Yet it would be a grave error to think that most people who occupy land are the pawns of politicians, and behaving irrationally. It’s easy for politicians to tap into this discontent. People are fed up after decades of unfulfilled promises and corruption in housing programmes.
Some politicians, especially in the EFF, have increased their rhetoric on land recently. It is possible that politicians or others with a vested interest may be encouraging land occupations. The City has appealed to the public to help counter what it sees as the “scourge” of land “invasions”. She says “large-scale orchestrated land invasions” are taking place.
In the week of 12 to 18 March there were 65 land occupations, according to the Mayco member responsible for informal settlements Xanthea Limberg. In just one day, last Friday, the City of Cape Town says it removed 1,200 “illegally erected, unoccupied structures” across the city.
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