May 2009. A talk by Orlean Naidoo at the Centre for Civil Society. http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?11,61,3,1748
The Chatsworth community's justice struggles are decades old but since mid-1998 took on renewed importance by heralding the rise of SA's new social movements. After a decade of combat with the municipality over water, electricity, housing and other grievances, the communities began registering victories in the upgrading of their area.
Orlean Naidoo is a CCS Community Scholar, and since 1998 has been a leader of the Westcliff Flats Residents Association, a community-based organisation situated in Chatsworth. The organisation recently launched a website: www.chatsworthactivists.wordpress.com The exhibit 'See our Voices' captures images of Chatsworth's poors: www.chatsworthactivists.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/see-or-voices
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