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latest news & developmentsEFF tackles apartheid legislation
While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time —…
Hope for domestic workers
Proposed new legislation would make it possible for domestic workers to claim compensation for injury, illness or death on the job
Gautengers move to shacks and gated estates
Shacks have increased by 204.7% and gated houses by 248.8%, showing a widening gap in the kinds of homes built in the country’s most populous province
Police defence on Marikana falls flat
A report highlights inconsistencies that demand that the police should scrutinise their actions
Six years on, still no justice or closure for Marikana victims
As thousands of mining jobs are cut, families of striking workers slain in 2012 still await compensation and justice
A little light shines for Marikana
Widows have accepted the settlement offer because they have no fight left in them
Scramble for minerals leaves rural families homeless
Rural dwellers displaced in the pursuit of corporate profits lose far more than just their land
Senior police officials to appear in court for Marikana massacre
Nine senior police officials are to appear in connection with the Marikana massacre― more than five years after the tragedy occurred
Life expulsion from Rhodes for ‘conduct beyond lawful boundaries’
Two unnamed student activists have been expelled for life from Rhodes University, while protesting against rape culture at the university.
Evictees: Fattis was not a hijacked building, we owned property and rented legally
The City has until Thursday to file a report on the alternative accommodation for Fattis residents.
Mashaba points finger at civil society: #JhbFire ‘was bound to happen’
Mashaba said he knew the fire was going to happen according to findings he had collected, and blamed human rights lawyers
Landlords have to pay for housing for evicted people and other myths
We dispel some of these myths using what we already know when it comes to evictions and temporary alternative accommodation.