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14 January 2020
IOL
A NPO, the Urban Rural Development and Capacity-Building Project, is celebrating two decades of rendering services to the poor on the Cape Flats.
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11 January 2020
Politicsweb
First major land invasions of 2020 commence in Tshwane’s Silverlakes and Boschkop areas
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13 January 2020
The Citizen
Most of the two or three-bedroom homes in the area, built for Transnet staff and still owned by government, show no sign of being maintained since before democracy.
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12 January 2020
IOL
Mayor Dan Plato is expected to table an adjustment budget at the council meeting later this month.
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11 January 2020
The Citizen
For what it was charged, the municipality could buy close to 100 RDP houses.
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12 December 2019
GroundUp
Court gives residents until end of January to find lawyer to fight eviction
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12 December 2019
GroundUp
But municipalities wash their hands of responsibility for providing alternative accommodation
Urban land read moreThe Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) is advising all its legal tenants at its residential and commercial properties that it only collects rental through a debit order system and per speed point at the ECDC offices and direct deposit into ECDC’s bank account at the bank as agreed with its tenants...
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09 December 2019
BizNews
Investec has cancelled mortgage bonds registered over 3,600 properties in 14 townships in Gauteng and the debt is being waived by the banker.
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08 December 2019
IOL
The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has obtained a court interdict barring land invaders from illegally occupying ...
Urban land read moreWhy is South Africa’s renewable energy sector so politically outgunned? The answer begins a decade ago, in a $35bn wind and solar initiative proposed by our government at COP16... it ends where we expect it to end, in the kickass power of the coal lobby... https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-16-renewables-vs-coal-timeline-of-a-fatally-rigged-fight/
Perspectives on the Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Act: A (giant) step backwards for human rights in SA https://www.newframe.com/a-step-backwards-for-human-rights-in-sa/
There is a need to balance the manner in which land is acquired and used. The debate on #landexpropriation without compensation has somewhat reduced the land reform question to one of acquisition.
SA - The land bill is a curate’s egg and, right now, it’s a bit scrambled - by Simon Hull https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-16-the-land-bill-is-a-curates-egg-and-right-now-its-a-bit-scrambled/
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