Government Plans To "Remove" Kliptown Residents

The mainstream media in South Africa and the world failed to report last month the Gauteng government's intention to flatten the unsanitary Kliptown squatter camp in Soweto and sell off the valuable land to developers.

Riots broke out in the squatter camp in July. They were reported as "protests against poor service delivery". Get an idea of what's really going on here:

Brought to you by: The Times Multimedia

Kliptown was in the news 52 years ago. On 26 June 1955 over 3 000 people made their way through police cordons to a dusty square in Kliptown, Soweto where the Freedom Charter was signed, the so-called Congress of the People. Under the Nationalist government Kliptown residents were never forcibly removed. But if blacks do it to blacks in 2007 it's okay. Watch this space.