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Residents' anger

29 July 2008
Sne Masuku

Protesters demand service delivery and RDP houses they were promised

Rush hour traffic came to a complete standstill yesterday morning when angry residents of KwaMancinza at Ntuzuma township in Durban blockaded the main roads and prevented buses and taxis from leaving the depot in the area.

They were protesting against poor service delivery and lack of housing in the area. Schooling and work were also disrupted as pupils and workers joined the march.

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Families evicted

07 March 2008
Sne Masuku

Homeless: Angry community representatives waiting outside the offices of eThekwini Municipality in Durban yesterday to hand over a memorandum containing their grievances about the way the process of allocating them houses had been badly handled. PHOTO: MAKGOTSO GULUBE

Two hundred people have been forced to live in tents after they were evicted from the homes they had occupied for about 15 years.

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Cops under probe

15 February 2008
Sne Masuku

830 police investigated for various criminal cases – ICD.

Statistics by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) that out of the 830 cases against police, only one officer was convicted, prove that police are doing their job.

This was the response by SAPS spokesman Jay Naicker to the statistics released by the ICD yesterday.

Naicker said the number of cases being investigated by the ICD do not mean that those officers are automatically guilty.

Summit discusses abuse of farm dwellers

Sne Masuku, Sowetan, 7 December 2007

Emotions ran high when community-based organisations met the ministry of land affairs at a two-day Land Agrarian indaba aimed at addressing problems of farm dwellers in Zululand.

The abuse of farm dwellers was high on the agenda. Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana and KwaZulu-Natal MEC for agriculture and environmental affairs Mtholephi Mthimkhulu attended the summit that ends today.

Xingwana said she hoped the summit would find ways of resolving the issues of abuse against farm dwellers.