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Amakhosi urge unity against rioters under #ProtectSouthAfrica hashtag: Traditional leaders on Wednesday spoke out against the ongoing vandalism, looting and intimidation of law-abiding residents engulfing KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng, and urged the country to unite …
SANDF joins SAPS in Bloemfontein for patrols: Looting engulfed parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng this week following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. Meanwhile, the men and women in blue are also conducting patrols on horseback …
Call for citizens to push back to restore peace as Ramaphosa scrambles for a solution: Civic society and various organisations across the country have made a desperate plea for calm and for citizens to take it upon themselves to push back against criminality while the President meets …
Nelson Mandela Bay taxi associations take stand against looting: Nelson Mandela Bay taxi owners and drivers stood alongside business owners at the city hall on Wednesday morning to take a stand against threats to loot businesses in the metro.
Infectious Disease Specialist talks Guillain-Barré and vaccines, and the fate of booster shots: South Africa’s police say 72 people have been killed and 1,234 have been arrested in waves of rioting that have hit the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces. Many of the deaths were caused by chaotic …
SANCO on looting which is taking place in KZN, Gauteng and Mpumalanga Provinces: SANCO,a national organisation whose primary task is to vanguard the developmental interests of the South African community, majority of whom are the poorest of the poor, is very much perturbed by the …
Mandela’s grandson on the unrest: ‘Culprits must be brought to book’: Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, the grandson of former president Nelson Mandela, has added his voice to the riots that have rocked parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) over the past few days. Mandela, …
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: In June 2007 the KZN parliament passed the Prevention of Slums Bill in the Provincial Parliament. The Bill compels landowners to evict shackdwellers, on the threat of arrest and criminalises resistance to evictions. The provincial Department of Housing, that brought the Bill to the Provincial Parliament, has repeatedly stated that ‘the slums will be cleared by 2010 in KwaZulu-Natal’. The Bill has been heavily criticised by academics, human rights organisations and civil society. The shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo is planning mass mobilising against the Bill and is also taking the matter to the Constitutional Court with support from a pro bono legal centre.
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