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As UDF activists in the 1980’s we protested against the National Party Government’s refusal to allow housing for black people in the Southern Peninsula. Now, over thirty years later, MEC Dyantyi is doing exactly what the National Party did, blocking a community driven housing project in Masiphumele. What has happened to the Freedom Charter’s `housing for all’ slogan. The South African Constitution says. (Section 25.1) `No-one may be deprived of property..’ and Section 26.1 `Everyone has the right to have access to adequate housing.’ Mr Dyantyi, may not like the SA Constitution, but as a paid official he should stop playing point scoring political games to embarrass the DA out of office and fulfill his Constitutional duties.