The report from this conference is online here.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=126777

Making up lost ground in SA’s informal settlements
Published: 2010/11/15 07:32:29 AM

by KATE TISSINGTON and LAUREN ROYSTON

IN THE midst of current debates about access to information and media freedom there are important political developments happening around another vital part of South African society. And no, it’s not the National Health Insurance or public sector wages (although these are critically important).

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A839316

AN IMPORTANT chapter in the lives of 450 residents of the Johannesburg inner city drew to a close recently, when they voluntarily moved out of “San Jose” in Berea and 197 Main Street in Johannesburg. In 2003 and 2004, the city had declared both buildings unfit for habitation and made a court application to evict the residents.

The residents moved into the converted MBV Hospital in central Johannesburg and the Old Perm building in Hillbrow.