Forced Removals

The Bar will invoke the cab-rank rule, which generally requires counsel to accept a brief in a field where they practise, even when they dislike the client or cause. Yet the rule…

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

Veteran journalist Felicia Mabuza-Suttle tells us about how she dealt with patriarchy, her passion for youth development and why she is a germaphobe

A coalition of NGOs is on a big drive to stop the Beifa coal project in Dinde, as well as casting a spotlight on mineral governance in the country

What was the City of Cape Town thinking when it decided to round up homeless people and put them in a camp?

The City also said if the lease were renewed it would reconsider how much the Rondebosch Golf Club would have to pay each month.

An exhibition draws on people’s personal albums to reconstruct a past that is missing from current narratives

Britain and Mauritius are in the International Court of Justice arguing over the Chagos Islands. But the evicted islanders just want to go home

Two Acts and the Khoi-San Bill, if passed, will dispossess people in the former homelands of their land rights

When the coloured population of Simon’s Town was forcibly removed, Aunty Patty’s family remained

Residents facing eviction from their Woodstock homes “have no right or entitlement” to be accommodated at a location of their choice

Residents from both buildings were relocated to the fields of Wembley Stadium in Johannesburg South after losing their homes.

In a landmark judgement, the Constitutional Court said that judges have an obligation to ensure that evictions will not leave people homeless

Those displaced still hope to see justice 50 years after their eviction from District Six.