In the media
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23 February 2015
Pretoria News
One of the biggest properties that will go under the hammer next month is Plastic View informal settlement, bordered by red. The yellow line borders vacant land also set to be auctioned.
Pretoria - Woodlane Village – the so-called Plastic View informal settlement – in Moreleta Park is among the first batch of municipal land that will go under the hammer next month.
Another prime property on the list is near the intersection of Bergamot and Anthesis streets in Lotus Gardens and includes a municipal clinic.
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17 February 2015
The New Age
Nelisiwe Mathe does not have a South African ID and her one-year-old baby cannot get a birth-certificate, so, as a result, together they are two stateless people born in South Africa, living in Tembisa.
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14 February 2015
The Sowetan
She lost her ploughing fields to a mining company for R5250.
Now 96-year-old Raesetja Magongoa from GaMagongoa village in Mokopane, Limpopo, wants answers from Platreef Resources, the company which she claims seized her fields.
People from more than 15 Mokopane villages are expected to march to the Platreef offices today to submit a memorandum of demands.
This will be one of numerous attempts by the community to have the mining project set aside on the grounds that they were never consulted.
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12 February 2015
The Times
Police in unmarked cars are going to "clean up" Johannesburg, evicting beggars, traders and pamphlet distributors from traffic intersections throughout the metro.
And in the near future motorists giving money to beggars or hawkers at intersections could fall foul of the law and be fined.
Johannesburg yesterday launched Operation Ke Molao(It is the law), which involves uniformed metro police in unmarked vehicles being deployed across the city to fight crime.
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5 February 2015
Voice of Wits - Law Focus
LHR's Kayan Leung addressed the issue of xenophobic violence across South Africa on the Voice of Wits' programme Law Focus.
The show is aired across four community radio stations including in Alexandra (Gauteng), Phalaborwa (Limpopo), Alfred Nzo Community Radio (Eastern Cape) and Radio Riverside (Northern Cape).
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5 February 2015
Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion
Liesl Heila Muller
Attorney, Head of the Statelessness Project, Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme
What does Lawyers for Human Rights’ work on statelessness look like?
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3 February 2015
eNCA
Recent incidents of looting against 'foreign-owned' shops in Soweto, Kagiso and other parts of Gauteng, have sparked fears of xenophobic violence similar to that of 2008 resurfacing.
It has also raised a number of pertinent concerns as to what the state of play is in the township economy. Who owns what? To what extent are migrants involved in small scale or informal retail?
What do we know about the contribution of ‘foreign-owned’ businesses to the township economy and South Africa?
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3 February 2015
Bloomberg
The South African government’s hardening attitude toward foreigners seeking refuge in the country may be fueling intolerance toward immigrants that exploded into attacks and looting in townships, according to security analysts and human rights lawyers.
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30 January 2015
Mail & Guardian
An Indian company this week declared its intention to mine in a critical water catchment area in Mpumalanga, just one year after the area was proclaimed a protected area.
Atha-Africa Ventures called a meeting with landowners in the Mabola protected environment, where the company claims to have a right to mine coal.
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28 January 2015
Constitutionally Speaking
The attacks on foreign owned businesses in Johannesburg last week and the refusal of many South Africans to acknowledge the xenophobic impulse behind these attacks – as well as the odious justifications for such attacks – are, sadly, not that surprising. After all, the stench of apartheid-thinking (and the false sense of South African exceptionalism that it reflects) lingers on twenty years after the formal end of apartheid.
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