Category Archives: Constitutionalism

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

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 →

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

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 →

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 →

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

Little tolerance for crime in vulnerable communities. But also dangers in the tough response

This article, like the other reports, with the support of criminologists on increasing community frustration with rampant crime and ineffective policing that leads them to take the law into their own hands. Continue reading →

Brutality prevails in Khutsong when hope is lost (Khutsong vigilante killings continued)

Khutsong: Brutality prevails when hope is lost

Community killings where police seen as unwilling to act against alleged criminals

‘We have made our point’, say Khutsong residents

Khutsong vigilante justice where police leave a vacuum

Clearly the killing of alleged gang members by members of the Khutsong community where the police failed to defend them, points to a wider problem of governability. Continue reading →

Injections and shock treatment administered in privatised prison

Mangaung defends antipsychotic injections for prisoners

Court action for access to Nkandla documents, allegedly illegally withheld from public

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/More-Nkandla-documents-sought-20131105

Expert evidence on police shootings in Marikana after ceasefire is called

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-06-marikana-massacre-55-seconds-later-cease-fire-what-cease-fire/#.UnnaNpHN7fN

Privatised prisons costly and effectiveness in doubt

Privately-run prisons are failing, says Ndebele

Legal Aid SA to appeal ruling on Marikana massacre funding.

This ought not to be legal action taken by Legal Aid SA. Continue reading →