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Egypt: Dozens arrested in Alexandria after protesting forced evacuations

Dozens were arrested in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Friday and Saturday after hundreds took to the streets in the working-class Nadi Al-Seed area to protest the planned forced evacuations of their houses. The residents of the poor neighbourhood protested after Friday prayers when they found themselves face to face with hundreds of riot police who accompanied several demolition crews. The demolitions have been halted due to the […]

6 June 2021

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Call in police and crime intelligence on land occupations – Human Rights Commission

The SA Human Rights Commission has called for state authorities, including police crime intelligence experts, to uncover those behind the "wave of land-occupations" taking place in Cape Town. This as multiple attacks reported against a range of government service providers - from firefighters to paramedics - and widespread land grabs. Cape Town mayor Dan Plato announced this week: "Attempts to illegally occupy land, City projects or community facilities include several […]

23 July 2020

Local

‘Very upset’ residents called Plato after Hangberg ruling, he tells Parliament

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato said he received many calls from Hangberg residents who were "very upset" about a High Court ruling ordering the City to rebuild a house it had demolished in the area. Plato and his team were briefing the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on the City's human settlements policy. In the court ruling, Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe ordered the City to immediately rebuild Ginola […]

18 July 2020

News

City and SAHRC head to court over evictions

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHCR) has once again locked horns with the City of Cape Town over its treatment of poor and vulnerable communities. It comes as the SAHRC and the Legal Resources Centre filed a court application to obtain an interdict against all evictions during the lockdown, after Khayelitsha’s Bulelani Qholani was violently removed https://vocfm.co.za/khayelitsha-eviction-raises-calls-for-suspension-of-senior-coct-officials-new-mayor/ from his illegally erected shack while naked three weeks ago. Although the […]

15 July 2020

News

Khayelitsha eviction raises calls for suspension of senior CoCT officials, new mayor

Calls have heightened for top City of Cape Town officials to be suspended for their involvement in a recent eviction in Khayelitsha which has raised questions around police brutality. It comes after eThembeni informal settlement resident Bulelani Qholani was forcefully evicted from his illegally erected shack by City law enforcement and Anti-Land Invasion Unit members last week. Footage of the incident, which also depicted a physical altercation and the 28-year-old’s […]

6 July 2020

Local

UCT denies evictions for non-payment of fees

The University of Cape Town has denied that they are evicting students for non-payment of fees after the newly inaugurated Student Representative Council (SRC) on Friday declared war on what it called an "antagonistic anti-black move". According to the SRC, it knew of 29 students who were handed notices to vacate their residences by this past Friday due to financial constraints. SRC secretary general Sinawo Tambo said over the past […]

28 June 2017

News

TLC not closing down

By Yaseen Kippie The Leadership College (TLC) has vowed to fight its closure through the courts, and says for now, it is not closing its doors. The future of the Cape Flats school hangs in the balance as the institution is facing an eviction order from its premises on 2 Kasouga Road, Manenberg. The order came from the Cape Town Child Welfare Society, the owners of the property. Many parents […]

13 June 2017

Local

Lawyer calls for City of Cape Town to find homes for evicted families

The lawyer representing a group of families facing eviction from their Woodstock homes has asked for the City of Cape Town’s assistance to find alternative accommodation for them. The group of about 15 families, who live in a block converted into apartments in Albert Road, were served with eviction notices (some in March, some in April) to vacate their homes by the end of May for not paying rent, GroundUp […]

30 May 2017

News

Recusal hearing against “discriminatory” Bromwell Street judge set for May

A group of Bromwell Street residents, who are facing eviction from their homes in Woodstock, have recently lodged a Judicial Services Commission complaint and a recusal application against the Acting Judge Leslie Weinkove for alleged discriminatory comments made during court proceedings. Legal representatives for Bromwell street residents said they are concerned that the Judge has a particular bias which might influence his decision. The Ndifuna uKwazi Law Centre has lodged […]

11 April 2017

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