South African Government Documents (Policy & Law)

• Breaking New Ground - SA Government's New Housing Policy August, 2004
• KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Department of Housing: 2004- 2007 Strategic Plan, 2004
• 'Upgrading Informal Settlements', Chapter 13 of the Housing Code October, 2004
• Realising Socio Economic Rights in South Africa - The Obligations of Local Government, 2006
• The eThekwini Municipality's First Response to Abahlali's Promotion of Access to Information Act request, November 2006
• A draft of the government's Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill, 2006
• The KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Bill, 2006
• The eThekwini Municipality's Land Audit and Housing List Files Received April 2007.
• Parliamentary Debate of the The KwaZulu Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act, August 2007
• The KwaZulu Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act, August 2007
• The Social Housing Bill, 2007
• Framework for an Inclusionary Housing Policy in South Africa, June 2007.
• eThekwini Integrated Development Plan, June 2007

Documents from Other Governments

• The Arusha Declaration Tanzania, 1967
• The Kaantabay sa Kauswagan Ordinance Naga City, Philippines 1997
• Statute of the City Brazil, 2001

Documents from Legal Actions Against Evictions in South Africa

• Two sets of documents from the Legal Resources Centre, successfully fending off the City's illegal evictions in Motala Heights, Nov-Dec 2006, here and here.
• The Founding of Motala Heights An Affidavit by Bhekuyise Ngcobo, 2006
• Comment by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand on Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Amendment Bill, 2006
• Court orders Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and the SAPS to rebuild shacks that they illegally destroyed, 30 May 2007.
• Submission of COHRE and the Community Law Centre as Amici Curiae to the Constitutional Court In the matter between the occupiers of 51 Olivia Road, Berea & 197 Main Street, Johannesburg against the City of Jo'burg & others, 2007
• Opinion by Kirsty McLean and Prof. David Zeffertt on the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-Emergence of Slums Act, September 2007.
• Compendium of legal documents filed against Ricky Govender, 2006
• Johannesburg High Court in the matter of Lingwood v Occupiers ERF9 Highlands, 16 October 2007
• Constitutional Court Settlement between Berea Township Residents and Johannesburg City, 30 October 2007.
• Opinion by Kirsty McLean and Prof. David Zeffertt on the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-Emergence of Slums Act, September 2007
• Full Court Papers for Abahlali baseMjondolo Challenge on the Slums Act, February 2008
• Cape High Court Gives Eviction Order to Joe Slovo Residents, 10 March 2008
• Community Law Centre (UWC) and COHRE Amici submissions to the Constitutional Court for the Joe Slovo Case, 2008

Documents from Other Legal Actions in South Africa

• The right to basic services in informal settlements: Notes on Harry Gwala High Court Hearing 12 December 2008, by Marie Huchzermeyer

Documents from and Critical Research on the Key Institutions of Contemporary Imperial Power Over Housing Policy (i.e the World Bank, UN Habitat, USAid etc)

• The Challenge of Slums by the United Nations, 2003
• International Trends in Housing Policy by Warren Smit, 2004
• World Charter on the Right to the City Social Forum of the Americas and World Urban Forum, 2004
• The global governance response to informal settlements – relieving or deepening marginalisation? by Marie Huchzermeyer, 2005
• State of the Cities Report by the South African Cities Network, 2006

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