evictions

D6 residents recall evictions

Community members gathered at the District Six Museum Homecoming Centre on Wednesday morning, in memory of the forced evictions that drove more than 60 000 residents out of the area. The 11th February 2015 marks 49 years to the day that District Six was officially declared a whites only area,[…]

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Evictions hit refugees at Johannesburg church

Hundreds of refugees who have been living in a church in the South African city of Johannesburg and told to vacate by December 31, are still in precarious situation without alternative accommodation, according to a church leader. Bishop Paul Verryn, whose leadership at the Central Methodist Church ended on Wednesday,[…]

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South Rd residents fight eviction

Residents in Wynberg and Plumstead are in an uproar over a proposed MyCiti bus route being planned for construction through their respective suburbs. This follows the City of Cape Town’s decision to issue eviction notices to 30 families residing in council owned homes, which will likely be demolished make way[…]

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Amnesty condemns Egypt’s evictions on Gaza border

Amnesty International condemned Thursday Egypt’s demolition of hundreds of homes and called for a halt to its “unlawful evictions” of residents to create a buffer zone with the Gaza Strip. Egypt started work on the zone at the end of October with the aim of stemming rebels reportedly infiltrating Egypt’s[…]

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Cosatu threaten strike against farm evictions

Cosatu and affiliated groups has vowed that if illegal evictions are not stopped soon, they will proceed with renewed strikes on Western Cape farm towns. The evictions comes after the announcement made by Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti regarding land reform. At a press conference on[…]

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Lwandle inquiry report finalised

The ministerial inquiry’s report into the Lwandle, Cape Town, evictions has been completed and will be handed over to Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, her office said on Thursday. “The Minister of Human Settlements Lindiwe Sisulu has been informed by the chairperson of the ministerial [inquiry] on the eviction of[…]

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Lwandle court order unconstitutional: Lawyer

The court order that Sanral used to remove people and structures off its land is unconstitutional, the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (Nadel) said on Wednesday. “This court order is actually, in accordance with general constitutional principles, unconstitutional and unenforceable,” said Nadel’s Western Cape chairman Joey Moses. “It could never[…]

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Call for final Lwandle submissions

The inquiry investigating the Lwandle evictions from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town has called for all interested parties to make final submissions. “Having gone through the scheduled process of the oral public hearings, the inquiry is now affording the last opportunity for different parties (individuals and or organisations) to submit[…]

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Lwandle inquiry extended

The term of the inquiry into the removal of people from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town has been extended, spokesman Vusi Tshose said on Sunday. Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu granted a request from inquiry chairman Denzil Potgieter for the inquiry to be extended until September 30, he said in[…]

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Evictions were traumatic: Lwandle couple

The violent removal of people and structures from Sanral-owned land in Cape Town resembled removals during apartheid, an affected resident said in Lwandle on Tuesday. Xoliswa Masakala and her husband Albert had been living on the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) land since December 2013, when they were removed[…]

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