Category Archives: corruption

GroundUp: Cato Manor’s struggle against state repression

Ndabo Mzimela, GroundUp

Cato Manor has a long history of struggle and repression. Women have often been in the forefront of these struggles. This history is well known in Durban. Many families from KwaMashu have roots in Cato Manor. KwaMashu was created to house some of the people forcibly removed from Cato Manor under the Group Areas Act. They were taken from land in the city where they had some autonomy and moved out of the city to a segregated township under strict control of the apartheid state. Continue reading →

Nkandla report’s story: Taking from the poor to give to the rich

Socio-Economic Rights Institute

PRESS STATEMENT

20 March 2014

 

Nkandla report’s story: Taking from the poor to give to the rich

Funds meant for informal settlement upgrading and urban regeneration diverted to upgrading the President’s home.

On 19 March 2014, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released her report on the investigation into the upgrades made to President Jacob Zuma’s private residence in Nkandla. The report, titled Secure in Comfort, states that the President “unduly benefitted” from excessive expenditure on his private residence and suggests that the President and his family should personally bear the cost of a reasonable portion of the public expenditure not related to security upgrades at his residence.

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Seri: Nkandla Press Release

SABC: Tongaat Mall Collapse: The Boomerang Effect

http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/327fca8041f7776ea722ef5393638296/Tongaat-Mall-Collapse:-The-Boomerang-Effect-20132611

Richard Pithouse

In 1961 Frantz Fanon described the colonial world as “cut in two”, divided into “compartments …. inhabited by different species”. For Fanon the creation of different kinds of spaces was central to the creation of different types of people and their ordering in a hierarchy of value. He concluded that the ordering of the colonial world must be examined to “reveal the lines of force it implies”, lines of force that “will allow us to mark out the lines on which a decolonized society will be reorganized”.

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Daily Maverick: Tongaat tragedy – when political connections and dodgy tenders cost lives

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-11-20-tongaat-tragedy-when-political-connections-and-dodgy-tenders-cost-lives

The Ethekwini Municipality just never learns. For ten years, the ANC-dominated council has consistently – in the face of community protest, political opposition and outraged newspaper headlines – given lavish city tenders to a small group of ANC benefactors. Now, after a partly-constructed shopping mall in Phoenix collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, killing one person and severely injuring another 29, it emerged that the developer of the mall is one of the ANC's most favoured (and possibly most controversial) tenderpreneurs. The Ethekwini ANC might now conceivably find itself in a fix that it can't talk its way out of. By NIKI MOORE.

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