Pastor’s plea to Zille and Zuma

20 04 2011
Apr 20, 2011 | Sabelo Mpana | Sowetan

CAPE Town’s townships “are a living hell”. This is the view of Pastor Xola Skosana, who met Western Cape Premier Helen Zille yesterday.

Skosana earlier wrote to President Jacob Zuma and Zille inviting them to join him this Saturday on a 13km march from Gugulethu to Khayelitsha.

“Considering the immense political influence you both have, if you have any empathy in you, you can change the material condition of 300 families at QQ section, informal settlement in Khayelitsha, who do not have toilets as we speak,” wrote Skosana. Read the rest of this entry »





Media: Nehawu wants details on student loans (aec comment)

21 01 2011

PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma must use his State of the Nation address next month to give more details about his plan to give students full loans.

Jan 10, 2011 | Anna Majavu

On Saturday at the ANC’s 99th birthday party in Polokwane Zuma said the government would not make final-year students pay back their third-year loans if they passed. These loans would be converted into full bursaries.

Yesterday one Cosatu affiliate union said Zuma needed to give more details about this plan in his State of the Nation address and in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech. Read the rest of this entry »





URGENT Petition to end the Violence in Kennedy Road

29 09 2009

http://www.abahlali.org – Sekwanele! – http://antieviction.org.za/

To sign, please visit:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/9/an-open-letter-to-jacob-zuma

For updates on the situation in Kennedy Road, visit http://www.abahlali.org/

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Dear President Zuma

We the undersigned are scholars, activists, supporters and veterans of the struggle for a free South Africa from around the world. We celebrated the end of apartheid with you, and have worked with you for the building of a genuinely democratic South Africa. Read the rest of this entry »








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