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12 April 2021
GroundUp
Former employees of Communicare, dismissed for fraud, go to court to oppose evictions
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13 April 2021
Daily Maverick
The award of the Per Anger Prize to S’bu Zikode from Abahlali baseMjondolo (Shack Dwellers’ Movement) marks a milestone for the largest grassroots movement in South Africa.
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07 April 2021
GroundUp
Housing activists demand answers eight months after Sisulu’s budget vote announcement
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08 April 2021
GroundUp
City by-laws are unconstitutional and discriminatory says Ndifuna Ukwazi Law Centre
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07 April 2021
Daily Maverick
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Cape Town protest movement has sprung up to agitate for services at new informal settlements with names like Level 2, Covid 19, Social Distance, Pandemic and Lock Down.
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08 April 2021
Daily Maverick
The Western Cape High Court’s failure to give primacy to the economic, social and spatial facts informing the City of Cape Town’s housing programme is just one reason why the ‘Tafelberg’ ruling cannot stand, and why leave to appeal must be granted.
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29 March 2021
GroundUp
Izwelethu informal settlement or Covid as it is nicknamed started with lockdown in March 2020
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29 March 2021
Daily Maverick
‘A shack without water, electricity and sanitation is not worth calling a home. On the contrary, it means life-threatening circumstances that are particularly harsh towards women, children and minority groups,’ says S’bu Zikode, founder of the activist housing movement Abahlali baseMjondolo.
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26 March 2021
GroundUp
Shacks set alight after a taxi was hit by stones during protests in the Delft area, Cape Town.
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26 March 2021
IOL
The rights of evicted people and legitimate means to repel land invasions dominated the recommencing of an application by the SAHRC and the EFF against the City in the Western Cape High Court.
Urban land read moreKZN government establishes committee to resolve farming tensions https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/kzn-government-establishes-committee-to-resolve-farming-tensions-57bb0c25-c46f-4eff-baab-a0e0986848d2
OPINIONISTA: Swedish prize awarded to South Africa’s S’bu Zikode is a milestone for the grassroots movement https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2021-04-13-swedish-prize-awarded-to-south-africas-sbu-zikode-is-a-milestone-for-the-grassroots-movement/
World: New Zealand introduces climate change law for financial firms in world first https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-14-new-zealand-introduces-climate-change-law-for-financial-firms-in-world-first/
More evidence of why Covid requires a global solution which leaves no-one behind whether they can afford to pay or not https://apnews.com/article/india-coronavirus-surge-vaccine-supply-55b7313c688b9a4c05a68a9c13e499da
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