Category Archives: Environment

Bad day for constitution when judge rules that traders eviction from work place is not urgent

Informal traders’ application ‘not urgent’, says judge

Deeper and wider irregularities linked to Tongaat mall builder

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2013/11/25/double-payment-linked-to-wife-of-tongaat-mall-builder

Judgment reserved in case to reverse eviction of traders from johannesburg city centre

Fate still unclear for Jo’burg’s informal traders

Richard Pithouse on the broader practices of governance that make collapse of Tongaat Mall and other attacks on the poor continue

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1851

Johannesburg seeks to expand its cleansing with preparation of apparently unconstitutional law

http://www.citypress.co.za/business/brave-new-joburg-operation-clean-sweep-ii/?utm_source=cheapsms247.com&utm_medium=cheapsms247.com&utm_campaign=brave-new-joburg-operation-clean-sweep-ii

Joburg street traders in limbo

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/joburg-street-traders-in-limbo-1.1611401#.UpC5H6XH1SU

Conflicting laws allow polluting mines to evade responsibility by Sipho Kings

Blyvoor: Legal minefield is a deadly hazard

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

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

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

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

Advocacy for women’s land rights-plotting way forward by Frances Ann Eberhard and Tara Weinberg,

Advocacy for women’s land rights: Plotting the way forward

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

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

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