La delegación de jóvenes del Kurdistán es testigo de un desalojo ilegal en Sudáfrica

La delegación de la Juventud del Kurdistán en Sudáfrica fue testigo de un desalojo ilegal en el municipio "Orange Farm".

During their delegation to South Africa, the Youth of Kurdistan paid special attention to meet local organizations and communities struggling for better living conditions and alternative ways of living together.

In this context, the members of the delegation visited the township "Orange Farm" in Johannesburg. In a report they published, the young people said: "Here, some 500,000 people live in difficult conditions in makeshift corrugated iron shacks, often without work, electricity or water.
Most of these townships are considered informal settlements, which means that residents have no official permission for their housing, but neither are they offered any alternative by the state."

The report added: "This fact is used by the government to criminalize the settlements, to demolish them arbitrarily in order to sell the land profitably and build on it."
During the visit to Orange Farm, the delegation witnessed such a brutal eviction by the private security service "Red Ants", working on behalf of the government.
Without giving residents time to secure their belongings and with the help of an illegal eviction order, they used bulldozers and heavy machinery for days to destroy the shacks and gardens of hundreds of families."

The report continued, "After the violent eviction, the "red ants" returned once again when the evicted residents described to the Kurdish delegation the methods of state repression they had experienced. Under the pretext of trespassing on private property, they tried to intimidate and evict those present, but soon after they had to leave without having achieved anything.

Tense and full of anger against the security forces, the inhabitants of the municipality then discussed ways to counter this inhumane eviction policy".