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Kevin Bloom

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As seen in: Daily Maverick, CNN, MSN South Africa, Business 2 Community, TimesLIVE, AllAfrica, The Namibian, Dissident Voice
Senior journalist @ Daily Maverick. Author: Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa's Changing Fortunes (2016); Ways of Staying (2010).
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Phantoms and forgeries: The cover-ups of Cape Town’s planning officers

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By Kevin Bloom 
| Daily Maverick
CLEAN BREAK (Part 3) In this last instalment of our three-part investigation, Daily Maverick takes its reporting on the clandestine workings of Cape Town’s municipal planning structures to the Blaauwberg district, where 40,000 middle-income ratepayers have been protesting against the City’s inaction on dozens of illegal buildings. As we discovered, along with the allegations of corruption, the threats of building collapse are real.
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Feroz Khan’s Madlanga backfire, rogue planning tribunal, and Bafana Bafana unpacked

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By Kevin Bloom 
| thefuse.co.za
By Kevin Bloom. In this first instalment of a three-part investigative series that reveals some of the lesser-known facts about Cape Town’s development space, Daily Maverick reports on the political capture of the municipal planning tribunal, the official body that handles billions of rands per year in land-use applications. According to the national legislation, these tribunals are supposed to be independent.
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South Africa: Property Information Withheld - - the Cape Town Planning Tribunal That Answers to No One

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By Kevin Bloom 
| AllAfrica
As members of Cape Town's municipal planning tribunal can now effectively serve for life (as revealed in Part 1 of this series), Daily Maverick interrogates the tribunal's lack of official employment records, the basis of its apparent property 'development-above-all-else' policy, and why it is withholding a critical legal opinion for which ordinary Capetonians have paid. To catch up on Part 1 of this series, "Members for life - the capture of Cape Town's planning tribunal," click here.
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