Friends of the Inner City Forum Clean Up Campaign

Pay Rent On Time & Build a Better Inner-City

Build a Better Inner-City
Moses Ka Moyo

There can be no real development or regeneration in the inner-city as long residents and Property owners do not Pay for services or rent On Time.

The city of Johannesburg is owed billions by residents and property Owners in Johannesburg ,Friends of the Inner-city Forum developed and launched a campaign on the 1st April 2010 that will seek to encourage tenants to pay their rentals to their Landlords on Time and in full,the Campaign goes further to Encourage landlords (Property Owners)to pay for municipal Services on Time and in full.

Property owners and many Bodies Corporate in the Inner-city find themselves in a similar position,owed hundreds Thousand of rands in unpaid rent or levies .

Street pole Adverts have been set up in and around the Inner-city ,with more to be rolled out in a couple of weeks time,With Funds Permiting more will be rolled out.

The big Boards can be spotted in below Streets:

1)Loveday and Harrison (In front of ESKOM offices)
2)Jan Smuts and Yale (In front of KPMG offices)
3)Pretoria and Claim (In Front of Highpoint)

The message is clear to say you "cannot stay in the Inner-city and not pay rent or do Business in the Inner-city and not pay for council services on time"If you do not pay your rent or services on time ,you are not a friend of the Inner-city .

Pay Rent and services on time and Build a better Inner-city .

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

By Moses Ka Moyo

The Friends of the Inner-City Forum wishes all Inner-city Residents and Property owners a joyful, peaceful and productive festive season. We hope that all residents will enjoy a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.

All Inner-city Residents are called upon to stop the abuse of alcohol, drugs and substances. Those who have sex should do so with protection and those who drive cars should not drive under the influence of alcohol. Speed kills and all should drive awake.

Residents who are going away on holiday are urged to pay their rentals and levies before they embark on their destinations, this will help all of us to continue in year 2010 creating harmonious relations with landlords and in serious pursuit of a “better inner-city”

Those not going away on holiday must remain vigilant and jealously guard their community from vandals that will seek to wreck our community in the name of new-year’s eve,

Friends of the inner-city forum remains committed to building a "better inner-city"

Happy Holidays

For more info on our Festive Activities Contact the Forum Secretary on :
mr jack lesudi - 072 283 0979 or Inner-city Hotline - 074 315 3594
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MESSAGE OF THE FRIENDS OF THE INNER-CITY FORUM AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE OF COMRADE ELSIE NKOSI

By Moses Ka Moyo

Nkosi family and relatives,
The Leadership of ANC,
The Leadership of our congress movement, and
All other protocols are being observed.
Lastly everyone present today.

It is hard to find words to express how devastated we are at the tragic loss of our dear Comrade Elsie. All of us in the Friends of the Inner-city Forum have lost not only a EXCO Member and a great Community’ leader, but also a beloved personal friend.

Today is the time to mourn and remember. But Elsie would have been the first to insist that we must not allow our grief to divert us from our historic mission to struggle for a better inner City-where residents are safe and treated with respect.
Since that fateful day when I was called about your untimely departure I have hardly spent a day without thinking about our telephone discussions. I will always remember the introductions to these conservations - "Where is the Residents' Chairperson, why have you not called me?"

Cde Elsie we will miss you protecting me and Jack every moment. We will miss you telling your friends about how great the Friends of the Inner-city Forum is, to everyone who cared to listen. We will miss the religious examples you always gave in our EXCO meetings. We will miss your being Elsie Nkosi .




To Basswood Residents, ANC Cadres and Inner City Residents, There are many ways in which we can and will commemorate the life of Elsie Nkosi, but as always the best memorial to a fallen comrade is to pick up her spear, and continue the work to which she dedicated her life.

Cde James Friends of the Inner-city Forum wishes you strength during this difficult time.

We thank the Nkosi Family, Cde James, Ward 63 ANC branch and its visionary leadership in allowing us to do a joint memorial service for our Beloved Cadre.
Cde Elsie We will not allow you to die, for your ideals live on.
Robala ka khotso comrade Elsie, Hamba Kahle, comrade Elsie

Amandla ngawethu

Aids Day vigil to be held in Ekhaya Park

By Ndaba Mlotshwa

A CANDLELIT vigil will mark World Aids Day in the Inner-city.

Inner-city Residents are invited to gather in Ekhaya Park, in Hillbrow (Claim Street), at 6:30pm on Tuesday, December 1, to mark the international day of HIV and Aids awareness.

Pamphlets and Condoms will be distributed at the Event.

Friends of the Inner-city Forum Chairperson Moses Ka Moyo said: "The vigil is a chance to reflect on those we have lost and to celebrate the lives of those who are living with HIV and Aids."

Moyo Further urged that the community turn out for the Vigil in numbers to help remember, mourn, and celebrate the lives of those the world has lost to AIDS.

It is against this background that in the Morning of the 1st Of December, Friends of the Inner-city Forum will be joining hands with the South African AIDS Council (SANAC) and government at the Pretoria show grounds to mark the World AIDS Day under the theme “I AM RESPONSIBLE, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE, SOUTH AFRICA IS TAKING RESPONSIBILITY”.

Friends of the Inner-city Forum calls on all Inner-city Residents to join hands in the continuing fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS.Our Country has an estimated 5.7 million people infected with HIV-more than any other country in the World.Nearly 1000 south africans die every day of AIDS related diseases.


Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report.

Issued by Friends of the Inner-city Forum
For more information please contact:
Moses Ka Moyo – Chairperson
+27 76 681 0577

16 Days Campaign Stakeholders Summit

Friends of the Inner-City forum is currently taking part in the 16 Days Campaign Stakeholders Summit, the Summit seeks to:

 Officially mark the Start of the 2009 16 Days campaign period.
 Review the Impact of the 16 days campaign since its inception in the country.
 Deliberate and agree on a co-ordination and implementation mechanism for programmes under the 365 Days of Action Initiative.
 Discuss progress and challenges to the implementation of the 365 Days National Action Plan.
 Advocate for active participation by all stakeholders.
 Strengthen partnerships for an effective national effort.
 Advocate for a sustainable 365 Days media Strategy.

The government is largely represented by ministers, deputy ministers, director Generals and various officials from different departments.

There is also a huge Contigent of Civil society Organisations

Friends of the Inner-city Forum will officially launche its campaign of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence under the theme – “No to Women and children Evictions” on the 26th of November 2009.

For more info:

Contact Jack Wa Lesudi
on +27 72 283 0979

Case against Building Hijackers almost lost

By

Moses Ka Moyo

I could not believe it and felt pain when a letter supposedly written by a ward Councillor, was a couple of weeks submitted and read in a Magistrates court bail hearing for building hijackers as evidence that tenants had a “right” to collect money through a club account in a Sectional title Building. Amidst tonnes of evidence gathered by the men is Blue (SAPS) in this case the councillor sought through her letter to rubbish it (evidence) and blame the owners who had been chased off their properties by gun totting hijackers (according to the councillor when I called her to verify the tale in court –she insisted that owners cannot leave their properties and go and stay somewhere) what if Madame councillor they are intimidated and pushed out? As a representative of every resident in your ward-did you call them and find out why they left the building? What about property rights? Do/should they not exist in your ward?

Madame Councillor this letter would have been appropriate given to residents in your ward who have not had electricity and water for more than eight years, it could make a difference if presented to City Power or Jhb Water or you don’t think so? Why is sympathy always given to those with money or those who control it? And the poor are left to suffer – Inner-city needs revolutionary councillors who will see the side of bread that is buttered and ignore it and demand that the other side be buttered as well for the benefit of every resident in their wards. But hang on resident shanaaz once told me a story where the same councillor brought in a managing agent based in Rosettenville (legal threats are mounting day-by day –will not mention names) to manage the building .it could be that the arrested are proxies, as the Judge said it will be interesting to know on whose behalf the three collected money for.
The pain that I felt when a ward councillor letter almost rescued the building hijackers, is the pain that one will feel when he finds a green mamba on his lawn and strikes it several times on its body, and then a Councillor comes and applies betadine on it and carefully and clinically bandages it, resuscitating it from the intensive care unit and releases it back to your garden!



Mama Gladys summed it up well when she said we would rather lose councillors than the war against Building hijackers - you choose.

Am Out ,on record anyone that colludes with Building hijackers must equally be charged as an accessory to this heinous crime-period.

NB: Moses Ka Moyo is the Chairperson of the Friends of the Inner-city Forum (Writes in his personal capacity, Views expressed are not necessarily of the Friends of the Inner-city Forum).

can be contacted on +27 76 681 0577 bayethe@gmail.com or moses@inner-city-forum.org