Bredell Land Occupation
The Bredell Land Occupation occurred outside Johannesburg, in South Africa, in 2001.[1] The Pan-African Congress supported the occupation.[2]
The state destroyed the shacks built on the occupied land. Women tried to resist by shaming the evictors with their nakedness but the eviction went ahead.[3]
Professor Gillian Hart described it as a "profound moral crisis for the post-apartheid state".[4]
Notes and references
- ↑ ‘Land Occupations are the new way of doing Land Reform’, Surplus People's Project, 2011
- ↑ State may arrest PAC leaders for land grab, by Rapule Tabane, 2001
- ↑ Ray of hope after day of tears at Bredell, by Baldwin Ndaba and Gudrun Heckl, The Post, 2001
- ↑ The Development Decade?: Economic and Social Change in South Africa, 1994 - 2004, ed. Vishnu Padayachee, p.25