A1.8.4.4 :: Press releases in 2004

► A :: APF paper-based collection
► A1 :: Organisational documents
► A1.8 :: APF media
► A1.8.4 :: Press releases 2001-2007, 2009
► A1.8.4.4 :: Press releases in 2004
► A1.8.4.4.1 :: The Concerned Learners Committee of the Bophelong community (in the Vaal) will undertake a march for free education', 19.01.2004
► A1.8.4.4.2 :: 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', 21.01.2004
► A1.8.4.4.3 :: Press release by the SAMANCOR Retrenched Workers Crisis Committee (SRWCC), 'Retrenched SAMANCOR worker, Jacob Motsoaneng, dies of manganese poisoning. SAMANCOR continues to sacrifice workers health & lives for profit', 06.02.2004
► A1.8.4.4.4 :: ANC councilor and members in Orange Farm attack and threaten APF activists distributing political pamphlets. What kind of democracy is this?', 10.02.2004 (2 copies)
► A1.8.4.4.5 :: Open session/press conference at the annual general meeting of the APF. APF to publicly launch its manifesto and campaign for the elections period', invitation, 12.02.2004
► A1.8.4.4.6 :: Police respond to community resistance against evictions in Kathlehong by fatally shooting two high school pupils in the back! The brutalisation and exploitation of poor communities must stop now!', 18.02.2004
► A1.8.4.4.7 :: We shall not compromise our struggle on evictions in Kathorus', memorandum from the Kathorus Concerned residents (KCR) to the Daily Sun news department, February 2004
► A1.8.4.4.8 :: 52 members of APF arrested at Constitution Hill, including 6 children', 21.03.2004
► A1.8.4.4.9 :: ANC members engage in another round of violent and criminal acts of thuggery and political intolerance against APF in run-up to elections. Gang of ANC thugs attack, assault and steal from APF members conducting political activities in Kanana (Vaal region) but police refuse to arrest culprits. Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) agents try to shit down subsequent APF mass community meeting', 13.04.2004
► A1.8.4.4.10 :: APF condemns the mass arrest of Landless People's Movement members', 14.04.2004
► A1.8.4.4.11 :: Release, and drop all charges against, the 62 Landless People's Movement members arrested on election day. APF outraged at reports of physical and psychological abuse of imprisoned LPM members by police's Crime Intelligence Unit', 15.04.2004
► A1.8.4.4.12 :: All charges dropped against 52 APF 'Constitution Hill' activists arrested on Human Rights Day (21st March). Why does the ANC government continue in its disingenuous attempts to criminalise legitimate dissent? Who are the real perpetrators of violence?', 06.05.2004
► A1.8.4.4.13 :: Ten months after being charged with 'intimidation' for being part of community resistance to pre-paid water meters, two APF activists in Phiri, Soweto, convicted and given R10 000 fines each (suspended for 5 years)!. The APF is outraged at this blatantly unjust, cynical, politically-motivated and hypocritical 'conviction' and will be filing an immediate appeal', 03.06.2004
► A1.8.4.4.14 :: The Johannesburg City Council and its agencies continue unabated with their war on the city's poor and working class. The APF will come out in full support tomorrow to defend the Workers Library & Khanya College from eviction', 30.06.2004
► A1.8.4.4.15 :: Three family members dead and one critically injured in Orange Farm fire as a direct result of 4-day electricity 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', 05.07.2004
► A1.8.4.4.16 :: You are invited to join the Kganya Women's Consortium & Orange Farm Water Crisis Committee (OFWCC) for a women's day rally (theme: HIV/AIDS & water privatisation)', 06.08.2004
► A1.8.4.4.17 :: APF to join marches on council offices by SAMWU & IMATU across Gauteng Province on Thursday 9th September. Organised workers and poor communities must unite against privatisation, casualisation and deteriorating service delivery (including pre-paid water meters)!', 07.09.2004
► A1.8.4.4.18 :: Families in Marlboro 'transit village' (Alexandra) to resist forced removal/eviction - scheduled to take place from tomorrow - to Braam Fischer Settlement on outskirts of Soweto. Gauteng Provincial Housing Department's 'Alexandra Renewal Project' (also a presidential project) riddled with corruption, nepotism, crass opportunism and developmental mismanagement', 13.09.2004
Call Number: A1.8.4.4
Title: Press releases in 2004
Dates: 2004