Daily Maverick: Tongaat tragedy – when political connections and dodgy...
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-20-tongaat-tragedy-when-political-connections-and-dodgy-tenders-cost-lives The Ethekwini Municipality just never learns. For ten years, the ANC-dominated...
View ArticleDemocracy in Africa: The right to the city – a theory, a slogan, a politics...
http://democracyinafrica.org/right-city-theory-slogan-politics-everyday-life/ Last week, Professor Marie Huchzermeyer gave her inaugural lecture at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she is a...
View ArticleThe Times (London): ‘Black Boers’ clear townships by force
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/africa/article3928464.ece The Times (London) November 22, 2013 Friday 'Black Boers' clear townships by force; South Africa Ruth Maclean Nelson Mandela's...
View ArticleOn predictability. The everyday struggles of shack dwellers in South Africa
http://democracyinafrica.org/predictability-everyday-struggles-shack-dwellers-south-africa/ Last week, the award-winning film, Dear Mandela, by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza, was screened at the...
View ArticleMahala: Poor Man’s Burden
http://www.mahala.co.za/reality/poor-mans-burden/ by Samora Chapman and Caelin Roodt, Mahala According to Abahlali baseMjondolo, the uprising in Cato Crest is being quelled by all means necessary:...
View ArticleSERI: Informal trader beaten by JMPD officers
http://www.seri-sa.org/index.php/38-latest-news/208-seri-press-statement-informal-trader-beaten-by-jmpd-officers-25-november-2013 PRESS STATEMENT 25 November 2013 Informal trader beaten by JMPD...
View ArticleSABC: Tongaat Mall Collapse: The Boomerang Effect
http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/327fca8041f7776ea722ef5393638296/Tongaat-Mall-Collapse:-The-Boomerang-Effect-20132611 Richard Pithouse In 1961 Frantz Fanon described the colonial world as “cut in two”,...
View ArticleDaily Maverick: Information – the first step towards active citizenry
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-26-information-the-first-step-towards-active-citizenry/ South Africa needs an active citizenry. The first step is information. This is because there is a...
View ArticleThe Star: Ambulance left ‘dirty’ woman to die
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/ambulance-left-dirty-woman-to-die-1.1615729 By THERESA TAYLOR Johannesburg – Sarah Bezuidenhout’s living conditions were harsh. A small shack of...
View ArticleMokoape, Vavi, Naidoo & Kasrils to Speak at the Assembly of the Unemployed
03 December 2013 Unemployed People’s Movement Press Statement Mokoape, Vavi, Naidoo & Kasrils to Speak at the Assembly of the Unemployed From the 7th to the 9th of December our movement, other...
View ArticleCLP: What CLP Believes
http://www.churchland.org.za/?page_id=3019 PADKOS NO 45 In civil society organisations, the overwhelming tendency is to speak – and the unerring consequence is to reinforce the silencing of the...
View ArticleLandesweite Versammlung der Arbeitslosen
http://akkrise.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/landesweite-versammlung-der-arbeitslosen/ Es ist Zeit, der Krise der Massenarbeitslosigkeit etwas entgegen zu setzen. Unsere Würde ist nicht verhandelbar. Die...
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