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Daily News: KZN housing development threatened

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2008-11-13 19:11. |

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KZN housing development threatened
13 November 2008, 08:22

By Nompumelelo Magwaza & Mangi Baliti

Residents of a Newlands West, Durban, settlement threatened to stop construction of the Khulula housing project in the area if they were not employed by the construction company on site.

The unemployed Siyanda residents blockaded the offices of Namandla Road and Civil on Wednesday, demanding to benefit from the development.

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Daily News: 'They gave our homes away'

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-11-12 10:57. |

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=124&art_id=vn20081111111710380C561956

'They gave our homes away'

November 11 2008 at 02:41PM
By Mpume Madlala

Desperate Clermont residents who waited 16 years for low-cost houses say
they have resorted to using force after seeing the homes allocated to
them being given to other people.

The residents accuse the local councillor, Neli Nyanisa, of putting
people on the list for the New Germany development Harmony Heights ahead

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Daily News: Shack evictions 'illegal'

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-10-06 17:20. | |

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Shack evictions 'illegal'

Claim by international report

October 06, 2008 Edition 2

IRENE KUPPAN and DASEN THATHIAH

DURBAN might be one of the top low-cost house builders in the country, but it has been accused in a scathing international housing report of evicting hundreds of shack dwellers illegally.

The report, released today, by the Swiss-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), claims that not a single eviction carried out by the municipality had been done legally.

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Daily News: Careless council moves have led to shack fires

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Thu, 2008-09-25 14:28. | | |

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Opinion
Careless council moves have led to shack fires
The adoption of the Slums Clearance Programme in 2001 has denied provision of basic services to our shackland dwellers

September 24, 2008 Edition 1

Imraan Buccus

Little more than a week ago, almost the entire Foreman Road shack settlement in Clare Estate burnt down, leaving thousands destitute. The next morning residents found a body in the ashes. There had also been a devastating fire in the same settlement last year. The photographs of the morning after are apocalyptic.

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Daily News: Fire leaves thousands homeless

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-09-15 15:21. | |

The Foreman Road Development Committee note with concern that the article in this afternoon's Daily News, which is below, (1) fails to consult any residents of Foreman Road while only consulting the police, the Housing Department and the Councillor and that (2) according to this article Yacoob Baig, a councillor who shack dwellers have rejected since 2005, and the Housing Department will decide whether people will be allowed to stay at Foreman Road or moved to one of the notorious temporary relocation areas.

It is up to the residents of Foreman Road to decide the future of the community not Yacoob Baig or Cogi Pather.

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Daily News: Fire, rain hit SA

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-09-01 13:24. | | |

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Fire, rain hit SA
Storms and bush blazes ravage the country

September 01, 2008 Edition 3

Daily News Reporters

More than three quarters of KwaZulu-Natal was affected by runaway fires this weekend, according to the MEC for Social Welfare, Meshack Radebe.

Speaking in Nkandla today, Radebe said fires and strong winds in the province claimed 17 lives and left hundreds homeless.

Most of the people who died yesterday were pensioners and children.

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Daily News: 'No one can have it if we can't'

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-08-20 15:32. | | | |

Note how this article conflates community connections and copper cable theft - two completely different things....and how threats from above are normalized while a threat from below, with a clearly spelled out logic, is 'bizarre'...

http://www.dailynews.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20080820111834480C857906

'No one can have it if we can't'
20 August 2008, 12:14

By Heinz de Boer

"If you remove our cables, you had better move all the power from the area. No-one can have it if we are not allowed to (have electricity)."

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Daily News: No decision on resistance to shack demolition

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Wed, 2008-08-13 17:22. | | |

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No decision on resistance to shack demolition

August 08, 2008 Edition 1

Irene Kuppan

The Durban High Court yesterday reserved judgment in the Reservoir Hills' shack dwellers' legal battle to prevent the eThekwini Municipality from demolishing their shacks.

The shack dwellers, who have already been granted an interim interdict, are seeking a final interdict against the council, preventing it from evicting them or demolishing their homes.

The six Arnett Drive Settlement residents were granted the interim order earlier this year, after the municipality's Land Invasion Unit des-troyed four shacks at the settlement.

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Daily News: Eight die in Cato Crest shack fires

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Mon, 2008-08-04 15:48. | | |

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Eight die in Cato Crest shack fires
People watch girl (9) die

August 04, 2008 Edition 1

MPUME MADLALA

SHACK dwellers in Cato Crest watched helplessly as a nine-year-old girl burned to death after her home caught fire in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The young girl was one of eight people killed in two separate fires there on the same day.

Three adults, including a pregnant woman and four children, aged seven months, two, the nine-year-old and a 14-year-old, died when their shack was gutted.

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Daily News: Residents march for proper homes

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Tue, 2008-07-29 15:54. |

This protest was organised by the Siyanda settlement, the same people that blocked the road in December 2006.

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4530083

Residents march for proper homes

July 28, 2008 Edition 3

Daily News Reporter

More than 500 Ntuzuma residents burned tyres and blocked roads in protest over what they claim is a lack of service delivery in the area.

The angry crowd from the Mancinza area and the township's J section said they wanted proper houses from the municipality.

Capt Phindile Nxumalo of the KwaMashu Police Station said residents started protesting from about 2am.

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