Bird’s eye view of Cato Manor. The green field belongs to a school. Photo: Jon Ivins In the shack lands of Cato Manor in Durban, everything is a hustle. If you want to find a room, you have to know someone. If you want to connect to illegal electricity, you have to pay someone. Cato Manor is a crowded slum with little access to running water and flush toilets. Many residents … [Read more...] about The bloody battle for land and rights in Cato Manor
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Housing: time to replace the outdated one-plot-one-house model
South Africa will need to build new cities and densify existing cities to tackle the housing backlog, says the writer. Archive photo: Masixole Feni With every passing year, South Africa is plunging deeper into the housing crisis. The housing backlog is growing, and at least 2.5 million families have been estimated to be in need of housing now. Protests, land occupations and … [Read more...] about Housing: time to replace the outdated one-plot-one-house model
Municipalities must play their role in early childhood development
The Five Reforms proposed by Real Reform for ECD to bring about access to well-funded, inclusive and quality early childhood development services for all children. The future of South Africa’s children is being hindered by onerous, unrealistic, and unaffordable regulations about early childhood development (ECD) at municipal level, including the registration of … [Read more...] about Municipalities must play their role in early childhood development
There’s nothing here to vandalise, Dunoon residents tell officials on anti-vandalism drive
In Siyahlala in Dunoon, families have to cross a highway to relieve themselves in an open field, Thokoza Mxotwa told government officials come to campaign against vandalism of sanitation and water infrastructure. Behind her is community activist Sinethemba Matomela. Photo: Peter Luhanga A deputy minister who visited Dunoon in Cape Town on Friday to urge residents not to … [Read more...] about There’s nothing here to vandalise, Dunoon residents tell officials on anti-vandalism drive
The student activist who gaslit workers and cost them their jobs
Sibusiso Mpendulo, fair use from his Facebook page. 31 security guards were fired in June after they disrupted UCT exams in an attempt to get insourced by the university. These guards had, for years, been misled by a student activist, Sibusiso Mpendulo, who pretended to be a lawyer. Mpendulo faked court orders and took thousands of rands from the security guards, before they … [Read more...] about The student activist who gaslit workers and cost them their jobs
