Tag: food gardens
Hands Off Djo Bankuna: let the poor run their food gardens
Djo Bankuna, a Tshwane resident, has been threatened with arrest by the Tshwane Metro Police for setting up a cabbage garden through which he feeds the poor.
Black First Land First (BLF) supports urban agriculture and food production. We applaud the initiative taken by Djo Bankuna to produce food and feed the needy. The Tshwane Metro Police, at the behest of the Tshwane Metro, are involved in unethical behaviour by harassing Djo Bankuna.
It is the policy of BLF to turn all spaces into food production places. Urban agriculture and food production have proven to be successful mechanisms to boost food security as it has happened in Cuba. Tshwane metro is concerned only in growing flowers and grass. People don’t eat flowers and grass, they eat vegetables.
The Tshwane Metro Police must stop the harassment of Djo Bankuna. Hands off this agricultural warrior. Instead of harassing Djo Bankuna, the Tshwane metro should be supporting him to continue to inspire others to do the same.
BLF has today written to the Mayor of the City of Tshwane, Cllr Randall Williams, and condemned the City’s conduct of preventing the hungry from setting up gardens to produce food. We demanded that Djo Bankuna be left alone.
BLF put the Mayor of Tshwane on terms to resolve this issue failing which we shall mobilse society for direct action until the matter is addressed.
Issued by Black First Land First, National Coordinating Committee (BLF NCC)
14 September 2021
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Zanele Lwana
(BLF Deputy President)
Cell: +27 79 986 7225
Kabelo Seagiso
(Head of Communications)
Cell: +27 63 548 2425
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