http://www.capeargus.co.za/?fSectionId=3571&fArticleId=vn20100310042851192C652936

Unholy row about Cape churches
10 March 2010, 07:16

A female metro police officer was pulled from her official car and attacked, and her armed colleagues were forced to retreat as upset Khayelitsha residents confronted the council's Anti Land Invasion Unit about its demolition of places of worship in the township.

Church leaders had to step in to restore calm when the confrontation erupted shortly after a busload of visiting ANC MPs left Unholy row about Cape churches.

This article was first published by SACSIS and also published in the Cape Times.

http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3695463

A government that is a danger to the people

February 26, 2010 Edition 1

Richard Pithouse

THE degeneration of the ANC has reached the point where it poses a clear and present danger to the integrity of society.

Julius Malema is one of the more flamboyant examples of how a movement committed to national liberation has become, in the words of Frantz Fanon, "a means of private advancement". But Malema is hardly alone. The Communication Workers Union is entirely correct to have diagnosed an "embedded and deep-seated Kebble-ism" within the ANC.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100301081722818C250646

Half a million have no loos
March 01 2010 at 11:01AM

By Anel Lewis
Metro Writer

More than 100 000 households, or half a million people, in Cape Town do not have access to basic sanitation.

According to a research report by international initiative Water Dialogues South Africa, about 37 percent of the 128 000 city households living in informal settlements have no access to any sanitation system.

This article was also published in the Cape Times.

FIFA Will Not Redeem us from the Burdens of History

Date posted: 15 December 2009
View this article online here: http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/400.1

The 2010 World Cup is being sold to us as a moment of collective redemption. Patriotism and theological sentiments are being mobilised to persuade us that a moment of millennial grace is at hand. Africa's time, we are told, has come.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5256105

Blinkers dorp

November 23, 2009 Edition 1

CAPE TOWN mayor Dan Plato's response to the angry residents of Blikkiesdorp does him no credit.

On a visit to the site last week, all the mayor could find to say to those complaining of conditions in Blikkiesdorp was that in fact the settlement was "among the best" of its kind in the city.

He described disgruntled residents as "ungrateful" and said those who were not happy with conditions in the camp were free to move.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5256547

Police chief warns politicians wanting to visit Blikkiesdorp

November 23, 2009 Edition 1

Caryn Dolley

Politicians planning to visit Blikkiesdorp, the temporary relocation settlement in Delft, should first let the SAPS know for safety reasons, the area's police commissioner has warned.

Issuing the warning, Commissioner Basil Vellai said the area was "a housing time-bomb" that threatened to explode and criminals were preying on the impoverished residents of Blikkiesdorp.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5218581

'on symphony way we were a strong, respectful community... i'm moving with a heavy heart'
Delft squatters shifted to Blikkiesdorp

October 27, 2009 Edition 1

Quinton Mtyala

HAVING been defiant for months, 23 of 127 families have relented and yesterday moved from pavement shelters in Symphony Way, Delft, to a notorious temporary resettlement area dubbed Blikkiesdorp.

Most expressed their fear at what awaited them at the row upon row of single-roomed corrugated iron shacks without water or electricity.