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20 September 2021
News 24
The City of Cape Town has landed itself in hot water after it demolished several structures occupied by homeless people in District Six.
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21 September 2021
IOL
The Strandfontein Homeless Action Committee says it has opened a case against the City following the confiscation of tents and structures of homeless people sleeping opposite the CPUT in District Six on Sunday.
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16 September 2021
IOL
The long-running dispute between the Penhill Residents Small Farmers and the provincial Department of Human Settlements over a portion of the land used by the farmers, which the department owns, is set to continue.
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09 August 2021
Daily Maverick
Climate scientists have been warning us for years there will be repercussions from global warming and climate change. Now, the new Quality of Life Survey illustrates the real and immediate effects of how people are being affected.
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09 August 2021
GroundUp
Happiness Village’s residents fear for their lives and face unlawful evictions, beatings and intimidation, legal action and shack demolitions.
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07 August 2021
GroundUp
Judge tells City to find housing in the inner city for Bromwell Street families.
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06 September 2021
Groundup
Ndifuna Ukwazi says City by-laws cannot be allowed to trump constitutional rights
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05 September 2021
GroundUp
Newfields Village families angered by Cape Town Community Housing Company’s ‘wheels turning slowly’.
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05 September 2021
Daily Maverick
Residents in the vicinity of the UPL warehouse in Durban are demanding that a team of independent doctors and medical specialists be brought in immediately to conduct a comprehensive health monitoring project for people exposed to an 11-day toxic chemicals fire.
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01 September 2021
CapeTalk
Jonty Cogger, attorney at Ndifuna Ukwazi Law Centre representing the 21 evicted, talks to Refilwe Moloto.
Urban land read moreNo restitution for the weary: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-21-no-restitution-for-the-weary-blaming-the-victim-is-an-easy-way-out-for-failure-to-deliver-the-promised-land/
BFAP reports low level of market concentration in SA agriculture. The bureau established that the level of market concentration in agriculture was 12%, making it, with financial services (also 12%), the least concentrated economic sector of all. https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/research-group-reports-low-level-of-market-concentration-in-sa-agriculture-2021-09-21
WATCH | City of Cape Town evicts homeless in District Six during massive operation https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/watch-city-of-cape-town-evicts-homeless-in-district-six-during-massive-operation-20210920 via @news24
Committee for the homeless opens case against City following evictions near CPUT https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/committee-for-the-homeless-opens-case-against-city-following-evictions-near-cput-b95aca8c-55ca-494b-af1a-65257b72a3ac
BUSINESS MAVERICK: South Africa’s ‘dangerous’ land policy under scrutiny in Fraser Institute report https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-09-20-south-africas-dangerous-land-policy-under-scrutiny-in-fraser-institute-report/
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