The meeting, scheduled for Khayelitsha's OR Tambo Hall, was apparently moved to Cape Town's Civic Centre.

"We feel the change of venue was an insult to us. People are desperate to talk to the mayor and explain their grievances," said Abahlali BaseMjondolo's Mzonke Poni.

"Last time we protested we barricaded roads and properties were damaged because the protest was hijacked by criminals. We want disadvantaged people to be the city's equal and respected partners."

Mitchell's Plain Khoisan Customary Council member Colin Graham asked: "Why does De Lille only respect us only when it's election time and completely ignores us after that?"

Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign chairperson Mncedisi Twalo accused the city of undermining poor people and caring for the rich only. "We are going to chase councillors out of our communities. We'll tell them to go and stay with the DA government."

De Lille's spokesperson, Solly Malatsi, dismissed the community's allegations.

Malatsi said: "We were alerted of possible disruption of the meeting if it took place at OR Tambo Hall. In light of this, we changed the venue to the Council Chambers in the civic centre. All organisations that were invited confirmed their attendance. We provided transport for all of them."

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Sat May 18 13:51:49 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 9, 2011

KhosanXX

Blacks normally become arrogant when they are under the control of whites. The DA will extract the worst out of De Lille because everything she does will be food for the bad wolve that lives within her. Each person has a bad and a good wolve within him/herself. However, it will depend on which wolve you feed that will give substance to your character. Further, you will only know which wolve you are feeding when the poor and disenfranchised reject you i.e. you are a bad wolve.
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