Category Archives: corruption

Bekkersdal as microcosm of wider social crisis by Jay Naidoo

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-11-22-bekkersdal-the-turning-point-in-sa-municipal-politics-time-for-a-line-in-the-ground/#.Uo8Qa6XH1SV

Collapsed Tongaat Mall construction group awarded another R 101 million tender

Collapsed Tongaat mall construction group awarded R101m tender

Council must be probed over Tongaat mall collapse

http://www.iol.co.za/business/opinion/business-watch/council-must-be-probed-over-tongaat-mall-collapse-1.1610117#.Uo76JKXH1SU

ENCA video: Many questions hang over Tongaat Mall scandal

http://www.enca.com/south-africa/many-questions-hang-over-tongaat-mall-scandal

Collusion between officials and builder of Tongaat mall investigated

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/11/21/durban-tycoon-faces-further-scrutiny-after-tongaat-mall-death

Tongaat builder ignored orders to stop

http://www.thepost.co.za/tongaat-builders-ignored-orders-to-stop-1.1609839#.Uo5C9KXH1SU

Frank Meintjies, SACSIS article on time for solidarity with human victims of ‘clean out’ of Johannesburg

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1847

Collapse of Tongaat building: when politially connected tenders cost lives

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-20-tongaat-tragedy-when-political-connections-and-dodgy-tenders-cost-lives/#.Uo2u-aXH1SU

State does not consult rural people about laws that affect them. By Mbongiseni Buthelezi

“The state does not consult rural people about laws that affect them”

Land question in South Africa with Nomboniso Gasa, Leon Louw, Songezo Zibi and Monty Narsoo (Helen Suzman Foundation panel)

http://hsf.org.za/resource-centre/roundtable-series/issue-twenty-eight-october-2013-title-and-entitlement-the-land-question-in-south-africa/view

In a period of shameful acts, Johannesburg ‘cleansing’ must be one of the most disgraceful episodes of our time

When the Johannesburg Council removed traders from the pavements of the inner city, Continue reading →

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

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

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

Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement continues resistance but faces assassinations

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

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

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

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

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