A group of elderly members of the Khulumani Support Group & the Galela Campaign have been sleeping outside the doors of the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. They are demanding reparations for human rights violations suffered under the apartheid state.
About 90 pensioners sleeping outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg in May. They are demanding to be paid reparations for human rights violations under apartheid.A group of elderly members of the Khulumani Support Group and the Galela Campaign have been sleeping outside the doors of the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg.The organisations are now considering legal action should the matter remain unresolved.
Most of those who slept outside the court come from Tokoza, Soweto, Thembisa, Katlehong and parts of the Western Cape where there was intense violence between 1990 and 1994. During this period, they were visited by a delegation including Justice Minister Ronald Lamola. But the group said no clear answers were given about when or how the reparations would be paid and vowed to camp outside in protest again.
Thabo Daniel Shabangu told GroundUp that he was shot on his way out of Thokoza Stadium in 1990. He was among hundreds who gathered at the stadium that day at a meeting called by a civil organisation over some of the discriminatory practices of the apartheid regime. According to the group, only 22 000 of the more than 100 000 applicants have, to date, been verified as victims of apartheid eligible for reparations by the TRC. The members said that of the 22 000 verified victims, about 17 400 were actually paid. They received R30 000 per victim as a once-off payment instead of getting the R126 000 over six months as the TRC had previously recommended.
Khulumani's Judy Ann Seidman said that they have now partnered with the Foundation for Human Rights, Centre for Applied Legal Studies and the Legal Resources Centre. The organisations are considering legal action should the matter remain unresolved."We are concerned that taking the matter to court may take years. This Is a fallback position if the government continues to refuse to deal with failed reparations," Seidman said.
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