There are some empirical errors in this article but its broad thrust, noting the scale of international support, is correct and valuable.

http://www.theweekender.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=83640

Kennedy Road gets global response

by Sibongakonke Shoba

Published: 2009/10/10 09:03:17 AM

OUTSIDE SUPPORT: The Kennedy Road settlement was attacked by a mob led by shebeen owners in protest against a curfew curtailing trading hours. So far, more than 1000 scholars, activists, supporters and veterans of the struggle have signed a petition to President Jacob Zuma in solidarity with the community. Picture: MHLABA MEMELA

http://www.theweekender.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=81916

Published: 2009/09/19 08:10:20 AM
An alien nation apart

by Richard Pithouse

IN THE cities of the global south, elites are often desperate to repress the reality of shack settlements. Maps are printed in which they appear as blank spaces, laws are passed that assume that everyone can afford to live formally and, in the name of order and development, the poor are beaten out of the cities.

The great elite fantasy is the creation of “world-class cities” — shiny, securitised nowherevilles in which the poor understand that their place is to live in some peripheral ghetto and only come into the city as menial workers.

http://www.businessday.co.za/weekender/article.aspx?ID=BD4A959091

Posted to the web on: 14 March 2009
No temporary solution

Life is uncertain for the residents of Blikkiesdorp, and they fear its thin tin walls may be permanent, writes JEANNE HROMNIK

BLIKKIESDORP won’t be found on any South African map. Its official name is Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area and it is not supposed to exist for more than a short time.

The residents prefer their nickname Blikkiesdorp — Tin Town — as it accurately describes the 1000 or more structures that the city of Cape Town erected in Delft last year to house them.

(A longer version of this article is available here.)

http://www.businessday.co.za/weekender/article.aspx?ID=BD4A904592

Posted to the web on: 13 December 2008
A forced removal to allow for ‘progress’

The eMacambini community is challenging the government’s plan to build a theme park on its ancestral land, writes PETER MACHEN

THE north coast of KwaZulu- Natal is dotted with towns gradually filling up with strip malls and gated communities blocking the view . Tuscan, Balinese and modernist architecture have obliterated views of rolling green hills and blue sea.

"Perfect rhythm"....for crying in the proverbial bucket....And as for the headline....Please see the comment on this article at the AEC site here.

http://www.businessday.co.za/weekender/article.aspx?ID=BD4A899796

Still waiting for shelter
Homeless people who have not been accommodated in Cape Town’s N2 Gateway housing project party while their children fear eviction, writes JEANNE HROMNIK