In an unusual move by the Constitutional Court, a full bench of 10 judges has indefinitely suspended its own order for Joe Slovo residents and backyard dwellers to make way for the N2 Gateway development in a phased in, deadline-driven mass relocation. Read the rest of this entry »
Media: A welcome opportunity?
3 09 2009
By Karen Breytenbach
3 September 2009, 19:43 – Cape Argus
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Tags: Bonginkosi Madikizela, Concourt, Legal Resources Centre, National Housing Agency, Steve Kahanovitz
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
Auditor-General: Report on the Special Audit of the N2 Gateway Project at the National Department of Housing
3 09 2009This damning audit report of the N2 Gateway housing project reveals costly and widespread deficiencies in the planning, accounting, design and execution of the government’s flagship low-cost housing development.
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Media: Outcry as developer bulldozes butchery
3 09 2009
By Natasha Prince
3 September 2009, 15:42 – Cape Times
Police were called in to monitor the demolition and eviction of a butchery next to an Nyanga development, after local residents rallied at the gates demanding that the authorities leave.
Police cordoned off the entrance to the gate, while angry residents watched and shouted as bulldozers and trucks removed fridges and equipment, then tore down part of the Skhoma Butchery. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Gugulethu Square Mall, Mzoli Ngcawuzele, Skhoma Butchery, Thandi Koyana
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Media: Court bid to evict Delft dwellers postponed
3 09 2009September 03 2009 , 11:33:00 – SABC News
The City of Cape Town’s application to evict a group of pavement dwellers in Delft has been postponed to October 7. The application was supposed to be heard in the Western Cape High Court this morning, but the group failed to file answering papers in time. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: City of Cape Town, N2 Gateway, Tokyo Sexwale, Western Cape High Court
Categories : Archives, Delft - evictions + resistance, Mainstream and Other News
Media: MEC admits to shoddy N2 Gateway construction
3 09 2009Eyewitness News | 2009/08/25 08:33:40 AM
The Western Cape Housing MEC has admitted some flats in the N2 Gateway development are so badly built they should be demolished.
Bonginkosi Madikizela says he now understands why tenants refuse to pay rent. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bonginkosi Madikizela, Constitutional Court, Human Settlements Department, N2 Gateway, rent boycott
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
Media: Jo’burg water policy discriminatory, court told
3 09 2009
JENNI O’GRADY
Sep 02 2009 14:45 – M&G
The City of Johannesburg’s policy of not offering water on credit to residents of Phiri, Soweto, as it does elsewhere in the city, is discriminatory, the Constitutional Court heard on Wednesday.
“I accept that the problem [of non-payment] requires a solution, but why did it differ from the solution that applied in white Johannesburg?” asked advocate Wim Trengove, arguing for a group of Phiri residents in a case about the lawfulness of prepaid water meters. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: City of Johannesburg, Phiri, prepaid water meters, Wim Trengove
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Media: Strong-armed cops ‘to blame’ for protests turning violent
3 09 2009
OMPHITLHETSE VIVIAN MOOKI | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Sep 02 2009 14:38 – M&G
Strong-armed police officers are to blame for service delivery protests that turn violent, researchers from the University of Johannesburg said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Balfour, Owen Manda, police brutality, Thokoza, University of Johannesburg
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