Elder Chief Mike Van Rooy, chairman of the Elders Council of the Cape Metro Aboriginal Khoisan Council, Beacon Valley
The story “Prasa squatter relocation battle continues” (Plainsman, September 21) refers.
We, the Mitchell's Plain Aboriginal Khoisan Council herewith express our dismay regarding the relocation of the Langa railway dwellers without free, prior and informed consent. This is another form of forced assimilation against the Khoisan, coloured, and brown people.
We reject this with the contempt it deserves, it's not only the Langa group but Nguni people from Crossroads, Nyanga, to name a few.
It's clearly reflective of the way they want to assimilate the primary school in Colorado Park with high school on the same premises for children from the above mentioned areas regarding the radius of 5km to 15km the distance would put them on the old Winfield property where there's already a False Bay College and other facilities to be used as a temporary relocation.
In Mitchell's Plain we currently have over 60 000 backyard dwellers and rent boarders and their families for whom this DA government has made no provision to build or provide housing, health care and education for this is a constitutional right and the responsibility of the state.
Therefore, the Mitchell's Plain Aboriginal Khoisan Council is repossessing land with a mandate from the people to meet the demands of our aboriginal and coloured nation. No retreat, no surrender, kei gangans in khoi means many thanks.