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APF affilitates   Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee - OWCC

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63 Orange Farm residents arrested after protest for service delivery

Tuesday 16th September 2008 by Ahmed
15 SEPTEMBER 2008 - Angry Residents in Orange Farm take the Golden Highway to demand basic services
More than 63 residents were arrested yesterday morning for public violence and will be appearing today at the Vereeniging Magistrate court (they have since all been released without charge). A strong crowd of more than 2000 residents organised by the Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee took to the streets in the early hours of Monday morning, 15 September 2008, to blockade traffic on the (...)

Angry Residents in Orange Farm take the Golden Highway to demand basic services

Monday 12th May 2008 by Ahmed
THERE IS NO PEACE WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT
More than 1500 residents organised by the Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee took to the streets in the early hours of Monday morning, 12 May 2008, to blockade traffic on the Golden Highway. Police opened fire with rubber bullets injuring at least seven demonstrators
Angry Residents in Orange Farm take the Golden Highway to demand basic services
The residents of Orange Farm Driezek Extension 5 took to the streets in protest for speedy service delivery (...)

May Day Rally

Friday 14th December 2007 by silumko
ORANGE FARM MAY DAY SEMINAR
ST CHARLES LWANGA CHURCH
DRIEZEK EXTENSION SEVEN
PROGRAMME
1. workers experience
2. labour department : Tshidiso Moleko and Mr Chere
3. Sub-contractor worker : Maria Koreti Zwimba
4. Unemployed worker : Mosele (Masibambane)
5. Health Worker : Martina Mokhele
6. Poem : Pulane (lovelife)
7. Youth representative : Junior Bikwa (lovelife)
8. Student worker
9. Women consortium : Gladys Mokolo
10. OWCC : Jabu Ndweni
11. Retrenched workers : SAMANCOR
12. (...)

Message from Orange Farm

Monday 9th October 2006 by Dale
Message from Orange Farm
Umlaeza #1
They told us to wait. So we waited. We saw apartheid criminals go free and men who called themselves leaders become rich. We saw them give up their red t-shirts for silk suits made in Italy. We watched as their bellies swelled and their voices thinned in their new accents of the market and the state. Still we waited. Fifteen years now we have been waiting, here in this place they call Orange Farm - a farm where nothing grows.
Fifteen years ago, (...)

ORANGE FARM WATER CRISIS COMMITTEE BLOCKADES THE GOLDEN HIGHWAY AGAIN

Wednesday 4th October 2006 by silumko
ANTI-PRIVATISATION FORUM
(TUES, 3 OCTOBER 2006)
ORANGE FARM WATER CRISIS COMMITTEE BLOCKADES THE GOLDEN HIGHWAY AGAIN
NO PEACE WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT!
Residents of Orange Farm have blockaded the Golden Highway again this morning, in frustration at the way in which their local councillors are responding to their needs. Almost a month ago, residents, organised under the banner of the Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee (OWCC), blockaded the Golden Highway for over twelve hours, demanding the (...)

Women’s Day Rally/Event in Orange Farm

Friday 6th August 2004
PRESS RELEASE
(FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST 2004)
YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE KGANYA WOMEN’S CONSORTIUM & THE ORANGE FARM WATER CRISIS COMMITTEE FOR A WOMEN’S DAY RALLY (THEME: ‘HIV/AIDS & WATER PRIVATISATION’)
TO BE HELD AT THE ITOSENG WOMEN’S PROJECT CENTRE (4602 DRIEZEK Ext.1, ORANGE FARM) FROM 9H00 - 14H30 ON MONDAY 9TH AUGUST
The press and all interested individuals/organisations are invited to join the Kganya Women’s Consortium (a project of the APF affiliate - the (...)

Statement on Orange Farm Fire Tragedy

Monday 5th July 2004
PRESS RELEASE
(MONDAY 5th JULY 2004)
THREE FAMILY MEMBERS DEAD AND ONE CRITICALLY INJURED IN ORANGE FARM FIRE AS A DIRECT RESULT OF 4-DAY ELECTRICTY AND WATER SHUT DOWN
ESKOM AND JOHANNESBURG WATER SHOW CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR THE LIVES OF THE POOR - THEY MUST BE HELD RESPONSIBLE!
FUNERAL TO BE HELD TOMORROW (TUESDAY) AT THE MWANGA FAMILY’S BURNT-OUT HOME (HOUSE NO.7781 - EXT.3)
Last Wednesday night (30th June) a fire at the home of the Mwanga family of Orange Farm (...)

Statement on Cut-Offs in Orange Farm

Wednesday 21st January 2004 by Dale
PRESS STATEMENT, FRIDAY JANUARY 21, 2004
ILLEGAL AND INHUMANE ESKOM CUT-OFFS IN ORANGE FARM SPUR COMMUNITY PROTEST
ESKOM SUBCONTRACTORS SOLICITING BRIBES FOR THE ’FAVOUR’ OF SPARING HOMES FROM CUT-OFFS
MARCH TO TAKE PLACE THIS MORNING TO ESKOM OFFICES (IN PALM SPRINGS) TO DEMAND RIGHT TO ELECTRICITY THROUGH ACCOUNTABLE, PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
Today ESKOM - through its hired subscontractors - descended on 30 homes in Extension 6 of the extremely poor and vast community of Orange Farm and (...)

Another Shooting in Orange Farm

December 2003 by APF
"It is not easy to stand up for your rights today." Philemon Tjeba, Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee (OWCC). This is something that activists in townships in South Africa are learning quickly as another active member of the OWCC has been the target of an orchestrated shooting. On 20 October 2003, at 8 in the evening, Alice Ngubane and her family heard shots being fired as they sat quietly in the darkness of their shack - their electricity had been cut off. They assumed that the shots (...)

Community Activist, Militant for Justice and Socialist: We Remember Comrade Emily Mmatshwarelo Lengolo

April 2003 by APF
Comrade Emily MMATSHWARELO LENGOLO was strongly opposed to the privatisation of basic services. Her opposition to privatisation manifested itself when she joined the Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee. Her determination to see the lives of the poverty-stricken masses improved was confirmed by the active role she had played in the movement. When Orange Farm experienced electricity cutoffs, she took it upon herself to recruit members of the community to march to Eskom’s office located in Palm (...)