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19 October 2020
Times Live
Noma Sozwe spent most of Sunday rebuilding her daughters' two shacks after the structures were demolished by a group of people who wanted to occupy the space in Gunguluza, Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape.
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19 October 2020
East Coast Radio
Members of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali BaseMjondolo have marched to Durban City Hall over forced evictions and corruption.
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20 October 2020
GroundUp
“The thieves must be called to justice” says ABM deputy president
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19 October 2020
GroundUp
Commuter and housing activists have set important examples
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16 October 2020
GroundUp
Residents from many informal settlements blocked roads, demanding basic services
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14 October 2020
News 24
Five more people have appeared in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court in Limpopo for allegedly illegally selling residential sites on privately owned.
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14 October 2020
Daily Maverick
The reality is that people need houses now. We cannot live on a housing list. Instead of using the available land to address the backlog of housing in Cape Town, the City decides to sell land to private owners for profit. Land in the city has been used for the benefit of the few elite.
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13 October 2020
GroundUp
Community stops protests but vows to resume if housing construction does not start
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14 October 2020
IOL
The proposal was tabled at a recent Human Settlements portfolio committee meeting.
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12 October 2020
Daily Maverick
This weekend Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers’ movement, celebrated its 15th anniversary in Durban. Today, with an audited membership of just over 80,000 members in five provinces, a large network of sympathetic lawyers, clerics, academics, and others, the movement is a powerful force.
Urban land read moreBeen both furious and broken for the last 18 hours.
Ma Ntshangase was an absolute force in person, overflowing with warmth, good humour, and a burning desire to hold the Tendele coal mine for its innumerable injustices to her and her Somkhele community.
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Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered http://www.groundup.org.za/article/mining-activist-murdered-kzn/ @CentreEnvRights @EnvironmentMinister
Even after 19 bullets were fired into Ms Mthethwa's home, she refused to make way for coal mining without fair compensation.
Tendele mine went to court to seek approval for their inadequate proposals. Unsuccessfully.
Yesterday, Ms Ntshangase - a crucial activist - was murdered. https://twitter.com/JohanLorenzen/status/1274667339640963072
Our remarkable clients resisting Tendele Mine recently scored a win.
Possibly provisional.
But a win nonetheless.
I tried to capture the moment, their bravery, and the host of kind, generous and brilliant people who made it happen, on FB.
Link here:
https://www.facebook.com/johan.lorenzen/posts/10100326373601675
Runaway fires burning since Sunday have destroyed embattled farming areas in Hertzogville, Hoopstad, Bulfontein and Dealesville in the Free State, and in the Frances Baard District near Warrenton in the Northern Cape.
https://citizen.co.za/multimedia/2373889/video-governments-silence-on-fs-nc-fires-failing-farmers-once-again-says-union/#.X5LAQTCP3J0.twitter via @TheCitizen_News
Land occupiers tear down ‘unoccupied’ shacks in overcrowded informal settlement “We have all invaded this land and no one has the right to destroy another invader’s shack,” https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-10-19-land-occupiers-tear-down-unoccupied-shacks-in-overcrowded-informal-settlement/ via @TimesLIVE
The government has been engaging with investors to clarify why land reform is needed, emphasized that there won’t be wholesale gazetting of land for seizure and designated the courts to be the final arbiters in any disputes, https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/442208/south-africa-moves-to-soothe-investor-fears-over-land-grabs/ via @businesstechSA
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