http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4782239

'They pushed my brother out of the window'

January 06, 2009 Edition 2

DASEN THATHIAH

A Tanzanian refugee, who escaped death by hiding in a bathroom, is reeling after losing a second brother to alleged xenophobic violence in less than a year.

Zane Omari's younger brother, Said, died yesterday as a result of injuries he sustained when he was allegedly forced out of a sixth-floor window at Venture Africa, a shelter for refugees in Broad Street.

Zane's older brother, Ramadhani, died in Johannesburg in the xenophobic violence that swept the country last year.

The nightmare is back...The rank denialism of the state last time this happened in Durban has allowed the madness to fester....

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4782485

Three die in refugee terror
'Armed mob wanted foreigners'

January 06, 2009 Edition 2

VIVIAN ATTWOOD and SLINDILE MALULEKA

AFRICAN refugees and asylum seekers in Durban's city centre are living in terror after three foreign nationals died when they were forced from the sixth-floor windows of a block of flats, allegedly by members of the local community policing forum.

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4607506

Ward councillor locked in home over service delay

September 12, 2008 Edition 1

THANDIWE MTHETHWA

Residents of Siyanda in KwaMashu, north of Durban, have been urged to be patient for service delivery.

This plea came from the councillor of the area, Mdudu-zi Madondo, after some of the community marched to the home of a ward committe member, locked her in her house anddemanded speedy service delivery.

Some houses do not have electricity and running water.

Click here for pictures of police injuries.

http://www.themercury.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20081205110652344C943369

Police 'shoot' Macambini protesters
5 December 2008, 11:47
By Mpume Madlala

Angry Macambini residents near Mandini on Thursday said they were shocked at the brutality of the police, saying that the treatment meted out to them smacked of the apartheid regime.

At least 10 people were arrested and several injured when a crowd of 3 000 people clashed with police.

http://www.dailynews.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=vn20081113053525990C273750

KZN housing development threatened
13 November 2008, 08:22

By Nompumelelo Magwaza & Mangi Baliti

Residents of a Newlands West, Durban, settlement threatened to stop construction of the Khulula housing project in the area if they were not employed by the construction company on site.

The unemployed Siyanda residents blockaded the offices of Namandla Road and Civil on Wednesday, demanding to benefit from the development.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=124&art_id=vn20081111111710380C561956

'They gave our homes away'

November 11 2008 at 02:41PM
By Mpume Madlala

Desperate Clermont residents who waited 16 years for low-cost houses say
they have resorted to using force after seeing the homes allocated to
them being given to other people.

The residents accuse the local councillor, Neli Nyanisa, of putting
people on the list for the New Germany development Harmony Heights ahead

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4646692

Shack evictions 'illegal'

Claim by international report

October 06, 2008 Edition 2

IRENE KUPPAN and DASEN THATHIAH

DURBAN might be one of the top low-cost house builders in the country, but it has been accused in a scathing international housing report of evicting hundreds of shack dwellers illegally.

The report, released today, by the Swiss-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), claims that not a single eviction carried out by the municipality had been done legally.

http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4627067

Opinion
Careless council moves have led to shack fires
The adoption of the Slums Clearance Programme in 2001 has denied provision of basic services to our shackland dwellers

September 24, 2008 Edition 1

Imraan Buccus

Little more than a week ago, almost the entire Foreman Road shack settlement in Clare Estate burnt down, leaving thousands destitute. The next morning residents found a body in the ashes. There had also been a devastating fire in the same settlement last year. The photographs of the morning after are apocalyptic.

The Foreman Road Development Committee note with concern that the article in this afternoon's Daily News, which is below, (1) fails to consult any residents of Foreman Road while only consulting the police, the Housing Department and the Councillor and that (2) according to this article Yacoob Baig, a councillor who shack dwellers have rejected since 2005, and the Housing Department will decide whether people will be allowed to stay at Foreman Road or moved to one of the notorious temporary relocation areas.