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Amendments to the Extension of Security of Tenure Act enable the formation of a land rights management board and land rights management committees to address tenure security, evictions, land rights disputes and land acquisition for settlement. Photo: File
AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED WORKERS UNION

No dignity in displacement: Tenure insecurity in the Winelands

The conditions of people who work and live in South Africa’s farms today have remained the same as under apartheid. Will the new amendments in legislation bring about change?

  • Lungelo Mncwabe & Nokhetho Mhlanga
7 min read
Abahlali baseMjondolo has directly confronted Operation Dudula on the streets – often at considerable risk.
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Civil society calls for urgent national intervention to protect Abahlali baseMjondolo

The government must act to protect members of shack dwellers’ movement from violence and harassment

  • Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa
2 min read
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute alleges the threats came after public statements by ActionSA city councillor Nkululeko Mbundu. Gallo
ACTION SA

Rights group Seri closes over online threats after it prevented the eviction of street traders

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute alleges the threats came after public statements by ActionSA city councillor Nkululeko Mbundu

  • Dennis Webster
4 min read
South Africa is widely recognised as the most unequal society in the world, with a startling 71% of the country’s wealth concentrated in the hands of a mere 10% elite
AUSTERITY

Civil society coalition condemns South Africa’s report to the UN on inequality

Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise

  • Luke Feltham
3 min read
AMANDA DUMA

Heavy-handed police must respect the right to protest

The charge of public violence was intended to deter street brawls but is being used to punish protesters and discourage dissent

  • Amanda Duma
7 min read
ANDRIES TATANE

SA needs to restrain use of force by police

‘Less lethal’ weapons have resulted in deaths and severe injuries, yet there are still no guidelines

  • C19 People’s Coalition Anti-Repression Working Group
6 min read
Despite the media’s wish for a neat story, the African continent’s response to Covid-19 is all over the map
CORONAVIRUS SOUTH AFRICA

2020 to 2022: Herding the disease

The state is trying to balance containing the virus with fears of hunger amid predictions that 25% to 50% of the population will get Covid-19

  • Athandiwe Saba
7 min read
Keep it safe: Police enforce social distancing between people outside a supermarket in Yeoville, Johannesburg. (Marco Longari/AFP)
ALEXANDRA

An end to police and army brutality is still urgent – Khosa family

The family of Collins Khosa, who died after police and army personnel assaulted him, says the easing of the lockdown does not spell the end of police abuse of power

  • Franny Rabkin
4 min read