http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-11-10-jhb-hawkers-complain-of-police-harassment

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Nov 10 2010 16:24

A memorandum of requests by informal traders who claim police abuse was read out at the mayor's office in Johannesburg on Wednesday afternoon.

Assistant director of petitions for the municipality, Peter Kute signed the memorandum saying: "We are inviting the executive to the offices tomorrow to discuss their requests."

The memorandum, with a list of 29 requests, was read out by One Voice For All Hawkers Association president Zacharia Ramutulwana in front of a 300-strong crowd of informal traders and two representatives of the Johannesburg municipality.

Click here to see a slideshow on this eviction and its aftermath.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-10-18-there-is-no-human-who-can-sleep-in-this

'There is no human who can sleep in this'
KARABO KEEPILE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Oct 18 2010 15:30

Evicted shack dwellers from the Gabon informal settlement on the East Rand have refused to occupy the 72 corrugated iron shacks built for them by the Ekurhuleni Municipality. This after they were evicted and their shacks demolished on May 11.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-07-28-city-rebuilds-kliptown-shacks-after-tearing-them-down

City rebuilds Kliptown shacks after tearing them down
KARABO KEEPILE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Jul 28 2010 11:53

Zoleka Ton's three-year-old daughter, Azile, was inconsolable on June 28 as she watched their shack in Kliptown being torn down by metro police officers.

n's shack was among eight that were demolished after the Department of Housing's implementation and monitoring unit accused the shack dwellers of illegally occupying council land in Freedom Charter Square informal settlement.

http://www.mg.co.za/multimedia/2010-07-28-shackdwellers-left-waiting

Shackdwellers Left Waiting

After eight shacks in Kliptown's Freedom Charter Settlement were illegally torn down by the Jo'burg City Government, residents are still waiting for officials to fulfil their promise to re-build.

Click here to watch this video.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-07-02-evicted-shack-dwellers-seek-legal-recourse

Evicted shack dwellers seek legal recourse
KARABO KEEPILE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Jul 02 2010 14:18

Evicted shack dwellers from Gauteng and Ekurhuleni -- accused of illegally occupying council land -- are now seeking legal recourse after their shacks were demolished recently. Their legal reprentatives believe they stand a good chance of winning the case because an eviction without a court order is unlawful.

http://www.mg.co.za/printformat/single/2010-06-14-200-young-south-africans-civil-society

Mail & Guardian 'Two Hundred Young South Africans that you Have to Take to Lunch' supplement

Sbu Zikode
President: Abahlali basemjondolo

Sbu Zikode says he learnt about "leadership, manhood and patriotis after joining the Boy Scouts in grade three" while growing up in the northern KwaZulu-Natal town of Estcourt.

Today, as a family man and activist heading one of the largest social movements to emerge after apartheid (the shack dwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has about 20 000 members), he remains very much a boy scout -- clean-cut, soft-spoken and trying to use meagre resources innovatively to ensure survival.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-05-21-cape-towns-cleanup

Cape Town's clean-up
GCINA NTSALUBA - May 21 2010 00:00

Tensions are running high in Cape Town over the city's apparent relocation of poor and homeless people to Blikkiesdorp on the Cape Flats -- an attempt, critics charge, to hide grim reality from visiting World Cup fans.

Blikkiesdorp was built by city authorities in Delft on the Cape Flats in 2008 and has since mushroomed. Its hundreds of corrugated-iron structures house about 3 000 people.

http://za.mg.co.za/article/2010-05-20-a-tale-of-two-stadiums

A tale of two stadiums
NIREN TOLSI | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - May 20 2010 18:07

They have sports heroes on the Cape Flats too. Names of footballers such as Calvin Peterson, the Valentine brothers, Peter and Kevin, and Neville "The Athlone Ghost" Londt roll off the tongues of people whose memories stretch back to apartheid.

These are players revered as much for their skill on the pitch -- at Athlone stadium, especially -- as they are for their role in the political fight that was intertwined with sport in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-04-26-cape-traders-to-be-moved-ahead-of-world-cup

Cape traders to be moved ahead of World Cup

KARABO KEEPILE | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Apr 26 2010

Street traders at the Grand Parade in Cape Town have been told to leave the area from May 1 until the end of the Soccer World Cup because of Fifa by-laws that relate to host cities.

"According to the host-city agreement, the city is legally obligated to provide a stadium and a fan-fest area," said Thembinkosi Siganda, Cape Town's director of economic and human development.

Spooks to sniff out who's behind protests

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-03-19-spooks-to-sniff-out-whos-behind-protests

TARRYN HARBOUR | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Mar 19 2010 08:28

ANC claims that service delivery protests are being coordinated came
under fire this week and, as Gauteng erupted in further protests after
last week's surge, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has revealed
that it is monitoring the protests.

Residents of Ivory Park, Rabie Ridge, Kanana, Phomolong, Poortjie and