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

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