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El-Warraq Real Estate Tax Collection Office

Posted on 05/09/200820/12/2020 By 3arabawy

I visited last Wednesday El-Warraq Real Estate Tax Collection Agency, in Giza, whose employees played a central role in the 2007 strike, led by Abdel Qader Nada who is one of the province’s representatives in the Higher Strike Committee.

The working conditions at the office are not fit for humans, it looked like a barn not a government office. The civil servants are crammed into either tiny corridors that were more similar to a cellar.

“You coming to take a photo of us in our graves?” joked one of the employees in the pic above. It did feel like a grave.

Other employees have their desks located under a roof made of bouss, which do not shield them from the sun or rain.

The roof itself turned into a garbage dump.

And no facilities given to the civil servants, no computers. Nazif’s “E-Government” has no presence. The Tax Collectors have to store all the data manually and work from obsolete notebooks and files.

Giza teachers demonstrate tomorrow

Posted on 20/08/200810/01/2021 By 3arabawy

The Giza school teachers are protesting the govt’s employment reforms package tomorrow Thursday 1pm, in front of the Teachers’ Syndicate in El-Gezira.

Imbaba

Posted on 19/08/200801/01/2021 By 3arabawy

The Daily News Egypt has a report about the Imbaba neighborhood in Giza:

Imbaba, an elaborate squatter area in Giza, Egypt, records 23,000 newborn babies annually, compared to the least fertile upscale Zamalek area with its 235 yearly births.
According to a recently published report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAMPAS), Imbaba, which has a population of 1.1 million living on an area of 17,000 square km, contributes 1.1 percent to Egypt’s annual population rise.
Official statistics claim that Egypt’s population grows by 1.9 million every year, denoting a birth rate of 25.8 percent. The number is expected to go down to 1.2 in the next few years. The annual death rate of 6.3 percent (452,000 people) means that the overall natural population increase rate is at 19.5 percent.

Imbaba is also witnessing an anti-gentrification fight. The govt is planning to gentrify Ezbet Matar Imbaba (The neighborhoodof Imbaba’s Airport). The area, where the airport that stopped operating since 2001 exists, is surrounded by more than 35,100 inhabitants according to govt figures (I heard double and triple that estimate from others, but may be the other bigger numbers I heard include the neighboring Bashtil and Madinet el-Amal which are under threat too.). The authorities are working on “developing” the area, without any coordination with the locals, who are accusing the govt of planning in secrecy to demolish the neighborhood and turn it into an upscale housing integrated with Mohandessin. A solidarity committee of activists and local citizens in the neighborhood has been set up, trying to fight back.