CITY OF CAPE TOWN 31 AUGUST 2017 STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE City, Public Protector and SA Human Rights Commission inspect work in Masiphumelele Today I visited Masiphumelele with the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, and the South...
Masiphumelele Leadership Forum
Masiphumelele Leadership Forum
The Greater Masiphumele Development Plan
From: Paul Hoffman Sent: 10 March 2016 10:57 PM To: Felicity Purchase Cc: mayor@capetown.gov.za; Helen Zille Subject: The Greater Masiphumele Development Plan Dear Alderman Purchase, Please provide us with a copy of the Greater Masiphumelele Development Plan. We are...
Masi – Complaint to the HRC
Complaint to the HRC late 12 March
Masiphumelele
This sequence of photos illustrates the terrible sanitation problems in Masi, despite the same problems being reported repeatedly for months. This toilet block in Z Section is one example. The outlet pipes at the back of the toilets are old and cracked. Sewerage leaks...
Waterfront ‘can rise’ from ashes
On Sunday, 29 November 2015 about 800 informal dwellings in Masiphumelele were razed to the ground in a huge fire fanned by a strong south-easter. Two lives were lost in the conflagration and the future of many more looks bleak as greater Cape Town winds down for the...
Homelessness In The New South Africa
The lot of street people, street children, collectively "the homeless" is a terrible and hard-to-face indictment of the caring, compassionate and human rights oriented ethos of the new dispensation in South Africa. Those living in doorways, under bridges, on pavements...
Grootboom To Hangberg – Access To Adequate Housing
The South African constitution is brief and to the point when it comes to the right to housing. It guarantees everyone the right to have "access to adequate housing". The state is enjoined to "take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available...
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