Monthly Archives: November 2013

JMPD deny harassing Johannesburg informal traders

Armed JMPD officers ‘harassing’ evicted informal traders

Informal traders say their removal from Johannesburg inner city is unconstitutional

http://citizen.co.za/87037/informal-traders-march-to-mayors-office/

Ungovernability in the townships

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/why-our-townships-are-burning-1.1608166#.Uomy2ZHN7fM

Moloto Road: government neglect, continued deaths of early morning travellers

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/mpumalanga/moloto-road-10-years-of-broken-promises-1.1608242

Wits academics attack Johannesburg Inner city ‘clean up’ of traders

clean sweep

Posted on 16/11/2013

Published in the Sunday Star

16 November 2013

In an opinion piece in Saturday Star of 9 November, Pressage Nyoni of the Trust for Urban Housing Finance (TUHF) rationalised Continue reading →

Athambile Masola,Becoming a woman in my black skin

http://feministssa.com/2013/11/14/becoming-a-woman-in-my-black-skin/

Terry Bell makes serious attempt to analyse the range of factors that have been neglected and made Moloto crash possible or likely

http://www.iol.co.za/business/opinion/columnists/moloto-crash-sign-for-authorities-to-take-serious-action-1.1607414#.UoZdT6XH1SU

Clearing of traders from inner city is attack on the poor

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-15-operation-clean-sweep-not-just-a-clean-up-but-a-purge-of-the-poor/#.UoXGsaXH1SV

Robert Sobukwe, later to be founder of the Pan-Africanist Congress, famous speech at Fort Hare University graduation, 1949

http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/robert-sobukwe-speech-university-fort-hare-president-students’-representative-council-21-oct

Rebecca Davis comparing mass response to gang rape in India and generally limited response in SA to range of rapes

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-15-anene-booysen-why-india-and-sa-responded-differently-to-two-brutal-rapes/#.UoXEfaXH1SV

Clean up of inner city is attack on livelihood of traders struggling to survive

The removal of traders, legally present and sometimes illegally, from the inner city, Continue reading →

Richard Pithouse’s insightful analysis of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1841

Rebecca Davis on carnage on South Africa’s roads

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-13-carnage-on-sa-roads-what-can-be-done/#.UoPXAqXH1SV

Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement continues resistance but faces assassinations

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/11/south-africa-fight-decent-housing-assassination

Law firms remain overwhelmingly white and this spirals into higher echelons of the legal profession

These figures for white domination of the side bar (attorneys/solicitors) have spin offs of a range of types. Continue reading →

US continued penalisation of Cuba under Obama

http://portside.org/2013-11-09/keeping-us-dark-about-latin-america

Foreign traders benefit local economies, Wits study shows

http://www.migration.org.za/press-statement/2013/foreign-traders-benefit-local-economies-wits-study-shows

Public protector’s report on Nkandla done without access to important documentation?

Nkandla: Did Thuli Madonsela fall for public works’ spin?

Statistics on rise of violent crime and drugs in Khutsong

Khutsong is plagued by drugs and violence