Abahlali files papers in Con Court appeal (28 January 2014).
http://www.seri-sa.org/index.php/38-latest-news/223-abahlali-files-papers-in-con-court-appeal-28-january-2014 On 13 January 2014 the Constitutional Court admitted Abahlali baseMjondolo as amicus...
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Tuesday11 February, 2014 Abahlali baseMjondolo press statement Abahlali baseMjondolo Return to the Constitutional Court Tomorrow The Marikana Land Occupation in Cato Crest was founded after an...
View ArticleEvictions in Madlala Village the Day after they were in the Constitutional Court
13 February 2014 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Evictions in Madlala Village the Day after they were in the Constitutional Court Yesterday we went to the Constitutional Court to support the...
View ArticleDaily News: Shack dwellers head for ConCourt
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http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2014/02/14/shack-dwellers-want-removal-order-set-aside by Ernest Mabuza RESIDENTS of a Durban informal settlement on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Court to set...
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The jurisprudence (case law) of the South African courts (especially the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal) has significantly contributed to the right of access to adequate housing,...
View ArticleSweet Home: A Preliminary Investigation into the Socio-Political Character of...
Jared Sacks For much of the winter of 2012, communities in shack settlements across Cape Town took to the streets in some of the most active civil disobedience protests since 1994. Knowing that the...
View ArticleThe poor are punished for demanding our constitutional rights
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View ArticleRoad Blockade now on in iSiphingo
7 March 2014 Abahlali baseMjondolo Statement Road Blockade now on in iSiphingo Residents of the iSiphingo transit camps are currently engaged in a road blockade. Transit camps are never acceptable....
View Articlebell hooks on the Home as a Site of Politics
Historically, African-American people believed that the construction of a home-place, however fragile and tenuous (the slave hut, the wooden shack), had a radical dimension, one’s homeplace was the...
View ArticleCape Argus: Council’s demolition of shacks unlawful – court
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/council-s-demolition-of-shacks-unlawful-court-1.1660881#.UyK37T-Sx1W March 13 2014 By Daneel Knoetze CAPE ARGUS Cape Town – There were scenes of jubilation...
View ArticleDaily Maverick: Analysis: Landmark judgment – what constitutes a home?
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-03-13-analysis-landmark-judgment-what-constitutes-a-home On Thursday, the Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Marikana occupiers and instructed the City...
View ArticleMarikana Land Occupation Wins Important Victory in Cape Town High Court
13 March 2014 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Marikana Land Occupation Wins Important Victory in Cape Town High Court Today, there was a landmark ruling for our comrades in the Marikana Land...
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View ArticleMakana Municipality Bans another March
Tuesday, 18 March 2014 Unemployed Peoples’ Movement Press Statement Makana Municipality Bans another March Municipalities around the country are banning marches and supressing the right to protest....
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The state- and corporate- media in South Africa won't let us forget that 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of representative democracy. But the thinking of people's organisations, and the...
View ArticlePadkos: Twenty Years of Democracy: “the call of a world that does not yet exist”
The state and corporate media in South Africa won't let us forget that 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of representative democracy. But the thinking of people's organisations, and the conditions...
View ArticleNkandla report’s story: Taking from the poor to give to the rich
Socio-Economic Rights Institute PRESS STATEMENT 20 March 2014 Nkandla report’s story: Taking from the poor to give to the rich Funds meant for informal settlement upgrading and urban regeneration...
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