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The concerns, which were drafted in a letter, were sent to the government and commissioners of regional and international human rights organisations.
Urban land read moreIrate shack dwellers who used to occupy the Kapteinsklip railway line decry the prioritisation of Central Line occupiers ahead of them.
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15 September 2022
EWN
Last August, officials from the City of Johannesburg, together with officers from the JMPD and private security, descended on the conservancy and despite not having a court order, tore down their homes and put up a fence around the conservancy to keep them out.
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17 August 2022
GroundUp
The new site is expected to deliver 216 social housing units in a nine-storey mixed-use development but people who have been trading in the vicinity question where they are now supposed to go.
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15 August 2022
Bizcommunity
South Africa is a dominantly urban country, with almost 70% of the population living in cities and towns...
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08 August 2022
GroundUp
June demolition of Bertrams Urban Farm, running for 16 years, disrupted dozens of feeding schemes
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28 June 2022
BIZCommunity
Dr Sameera Mahomedy says the government seems unwilling to facilitate proper participatory processes when upgrading informal settlements...
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26 June 2022
Daily Maverick
The controversial River Club site in Cape Town, where giant international retailer Amazon plans to build a South African headquarters, has been embroiled in a protracted legal battle – with rival indigenous groups campaigning for and against the development. Here are the voices of indigenous communities against the development.
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20 June 2022
Daily Maverick
Professor Emeritus of Hydrology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Water Resources Research argues that not just heavy rain and climate change were responsible for the devastation in Durban and other provincial areas.
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15 June 2022
GroundUp
Hundreds need blankets and food as they are cold and hungry
Urban land read moreComprehensive sex-disaggregated data is essential to driving change for women's #LandRights and #GenderEquality. https://landportal.org/blog-post/2022/09/how-do-we-know-transformative-changes-are-taking-place-women%E2%80%99s-land-rights #WomensLand @LandPortal
(Re) designing Living Customary Law to Protect a First Wife in a Pluralistic Legal System: The Constitutional Court has spoken
https://goo.gl/scholar/GiKsPt #ScholarAlerts
#Expropriation #compensation
AgriSA: The Expropriation Bill’s provision for nil compensation will result in a future of policy uncertainty for the agricultural sector. https://www.cbn.co.za/industry-news/agriculture/parliament-must-reject-the-expropriation-bill-in-its-current-form-to-prevent-catastrophic-consequences-for-the-agricultural-sector-and-economy/ via @BusinessNewsCT
DAG would like to appeal directly to the residents & businesses of CT to DONATE physical items listed below & any other practical items, to assist families who lost all their possessions & were left with nowhere to call home after their structures burned down in Imizamo Yethu.
KZN acting judge and former head of agriculture arrested for corruption https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2022-09-20-kzn-acting-judge-and-former-head-of-agriculture-arrested-for-corruption/ via @TimesLIVE
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