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Symphony Way Informal Settlement was a small community of pavement dwellers (shack dwellers who live on the pavement) that lived on Symphony Way, a main road in Delft, South Africa, from February 2008 till late 2009. They were a group of families that were evicted in February 2008 from the N2 Gateway Houses. ==History of the community== In December 2007, Frank Martin, a Democratic Alliance Councillor and City of Cape Town mayoral committee member, issued letters to an estimated 300 families in Delft, which granted them permission to move into the houses, and stated that he would accept full responsibility for the consequences. Backyard-dwellers then occupied over 1,500 houses in the N2 Gateway.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Housing and Evictions at the N2 Gateway Project in Delft )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Housing Development Agency Bill & Delft evictions: Department briefing )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Martin should be fired say families evicted from houses )〕 In February, over 1,500 families were evicted from the N2 Gateway houses. This was a violent eviction which included the use of rubber bullets. Over 20 people were injured including many women and children. Pictures and videos have circulated taking account of the violence including the shooting of a three-year-old child who was shot three times.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Housing and Evictions at the N2 Gateway Project in Delft )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Video of Delft shootings on eTV )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Pictures of Delft evictions and police brutality )〕 In February 2008, residents set up an informal settlement on Symphony Way despite efforts by the City of Cape Town to evict them and move them into a nearby Temporary Relocation Area (TRA) nicknamed Blikkiesdorp.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Police illegally destroy homes on Symphony Way )〕 Residents remained occupying the road for 21 months claiming that the TRAs like Blikkiesdorp are created to dump people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Squatters vow war if evicted )〕 On 19 October 2009 a Western Cape High Court judge granted an order for the eviction of 103 families to Blikkiesdorp. The majority of residents reluctantly moved off Symphony Way (where they felt safer) and into Blikkiesdorp (which is notorious for crime) in November 2009.〔(Media: Delft squatters shifted to Blikkiesdorp ) ''IOL''〕〔(CT to evict pavement dwellers ) ''News24''〕 In Blikkiesdorp, they have continued to organise under the banner of Symphony Way and have continued their struggle for land and housing.〔(Symphony Way is not dead. We are still Symphony Way. We will always be Symphony Way. ) ''Anti-Eviction Campaign''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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