http://www.sowetan.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1047617

Cut the stunts and do something real
11 August 2009
BOLEKAJA! - Andile Mngxitama

MINISTER of human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale spent one night with the Diepsloot poor – then he wrote a blow-by-blow account for the newspapers.

Apparently he is now armed with the views and concerns of that communities’ poor and will be handing in a report to the cabinet.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this comical political posturing.

The minister undertook this act of experiencing poverty for one night in full view of the admiring media. He endured, he reports, a night of untold discomfort.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20090804031925973C101871

Rich Tokyo spends night among poor
Xolani Mbanjwa
August 04 2009 at 05:48AM

Tokyo Sexwale, the Minister of Human Settlements and one of the country's richest men, has spent the night in Diepsloot, north-west of Joburg.

Monday night's experience was meant to acquaint Sexwale with the hardships faced by millions of South Africans living in informal settlements.

It marked the first of many visits Sexwale plans to make to informal settlements on a nationwide fact-finding mission to uncover the reasons behind the service delivery protests that rocked the country and to assess the massive backlog in housing.

Tokyo Sekwale, owner of a R56 million house, and a man who cited matchbox houses as one of his reasons for taking up arms against apartheid, declares protest against 'housing' far worse than apartheid's matchbox houses to be 'anarchy' that will be met with 'zero tolerance'....Click here to read the transcript of this press conference.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=124&art_id=vn20090701051810350C862668