Sunday Argus

N2 Gateway and the Joe Slovo informal settlement: the new Crossroads?

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Since the launch in 2004 of N2 Gateway, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s pet ‘flagship’ project has run into problem after problem: delayed delivery, cost over-runs, above all lack of consultation. In their 2004-5 report the Development Action Group, an NGO, wrote “The top-down approach in the N2 project undermines its overall sustainability… The casual, continued and increasing practice of excluding people from decision-making about development processes that directly affect their lives is an obstacle that communities are unlikely to tolerate for much longer.”

Sunday Argus: 'No land, no home, no vote'

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'No land, no home, no vote'

By Susan Comrie

The new bank-bonded houses on Symphony Way in Delft are standing empty - bright signs invite people to "come in and have a look" - but around the perimeter the razor-wire fence sends a different message.

Just metres away, the Symphony Way pavement dwellers look on angrily.

They have spent the past 14 months living in makeshift homes along this small section of road in Delft after they were evicted from houses they illegally occupied in the N2 Gateway Project in February last year.

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