Nigeria: Tenants Battle Industrialist Over Eviction Notice - For occupants of the nine-storey building known as Prince's Court on Victoria Island, life is now one bag of hardship, inconveniencies and uncertainty. [AA Urbanisation]

Uganda: 'Eviction Has Reduced Us to Beggars' - "We have been reduced to begging from relatives and to migrate to urban areas where life is not safe. We were living in the mountain for more than 200 years. Transferring us means burying us, completely. We want to stay in our area and develop." [AA Urbanisation]

Uganda: 500 Entebbe Residents Face Eviction - About 500 families living on Lower Namiro in Entebbe Division B Sub county are facing eviction. The tenants accuse the village chairman, Mr Paul Zikuliza, of conniving with Division B leaders to sell their land to an unknown investor who has started surveying their plots. [AA Urbanisation]

Zimbabwe: Residents Face Eviction - Forty-two Chitungwiza residents in Unit B face eviction from their stands after Government condemned them, arguing that the town council had unprocedurally allocated the stands to the beneficiaries. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Tenants Along Principal Streets of T'di Being Ejected - SOME tenants in Takoradi, whose rented apartments are located along the principal streets of the oil city, are going through enduring and harrowing moments of ejections. [AA Construction]

Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Interference in Eviction Ruling of 26 Families - At least 26 families living on Foothills farm near Bindura are facing imminent eviction, after a ruling last Friday that is feared to have been swayed by ZANU PF interference. [AA Urbanisation]

Ghana: Sodom & Gomorrah Eviction On Course - The brouhaha surrounding the eviction and demolition of the popular slum, Sodom and Gomorrah, has taken a new twist, with the relocation of the Agboloshie food hub, lorry station in the area. [AA Urbanisation]

Kenya: Kibera Residents to Wait Longer for Better Housing - There will be no demolition of structures at Kibera's Soweto slum to pave way for better housing, albeit temporarily. [AA Urbanisation]

Namibia: City Squatters Get Another Reprieve - ILLEGAL squatters on Windhoek municipal property will remain safe from evictions for another month, after the High Court on Friday extended its suspension of the Squatters Proclamation of 1985. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Committee Ejects Illegal House Occupants - More persons were yesterday ejected from their residences by officials of the adhoc committee on the sale of government houses in Abuja. [AA Urbanisation]

Nigeria: Demolition - The Rivers Example - As various state governments embark on demolition of structures for urban renewal and in some cases beautification, people and businesses are naturally being displaced. But while some governments put a bold face to it arguing that most of the displaced people were not supposed to be at the affected areas, the Rivers State government under Hon. Rotimi Chubuike Amaechi is showing that despite its might and legal rights, government can be humane and sensitive. [AA Urbanisation]

Zimbabwe: Fears of Second Round of Mass Evictions - Thousands of people in the Zimbabwean capital face mass eviction from their market stalls and homes in a government operation reminiscent of the forced evictions that left about 700,000 without homes or livelihood in 2005. [AA Urbanisation]

Kenya: Govt Should Provide Emergency Shelter for the Thousands Forcibly Evicted from their Homes in Winter - Kenya’s government should provide emergency shelter and other humanitarian aid to the 3,000 people forcibly evicted from their homes and who are now exposed to the cold and rain of Kenya’s winter, Amnesty International said today. [AA Urbanisation]

Zimbabwe: Fear of More Mass Evictions in Harare - Thousands of people in Harare face mass eviction from their market stalls and homes. Most of the targeted people were victims of the 2005 mass forced evictions that left about 700,000 people without homes or livelihood or both. Four years, on the authorities now want to forcibly re-evict some of these people. [AA Urbanisation]

By Proffesor Ndawonde

Johannesburg - Minister of Human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale has clarified media speculations that government will evict people living in informal settlements to hide them from tourists during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Speaking at a post Local Organising Committee press conference on Thursday, Minister Sexwale said those were dense assumptions and government had never planned to evict people living in shacks.

"There is a no policy that says government must evict people who are living in poverty or in shacks nearby venues. We cannot do that.

"We cannot hide people from the view of tourists. Actually government wants to empower these people and we will be more excited if tourists can visit these areas and buy in spaza shops in townships," he said.

LOC Chief Executive Officer, Danny Jordaan said government and the LOC cannot be hypocritical by hiding people who are stricken by poverty, adding that media must stop spreading unnecessary and fallacious statements.

"That is not a position and tourists have been in these areas and are part of South Africa. Why would the government hide them?