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Evictions Rise as South African Govt Promises Assistance
Evictions among farmworkers and backyarders have risen. This comes after Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, and Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato committed to assist those affected.
South Africa: Criminalising Cannabis Use and Possession By Children Is Unconstitutional, Court Rules
Court hears children are languishing for months in detention for trivial offences The High Court has ruled that children cannot be incarcerated for trivial offences such as smoking dagga. Court-ordered audits found children treated more severely than adults in identical circumstances. A section of the Drug Trafficking Act was found to be unconstitutional. The court found school drug tests were being conducted unlawfully.
South Africa: Herbicides Accumulate in Camps Bay Sea Life
Scientists have found herbicides in seawater and in mussels and seaweed in Camps Bay. They say the herbicides probably come from the sewage pipe which leads into the bay but this is disputed by Councillor Xanthea Limberg. These herbicides are banned in other countries. Some are considered dangerous to human health as well as marine organisms. The scientists say urgent regulation is necessary.
South Africa: Police Disperse Zimbabwean Protesters in Cape Town
About 150 people protesting outside the Zimbabwean Cape Town Consulate were told to disperse by police on Friday. When protesters refused, police went to their cars to fetch their equipment. A protesters said, "Let us go before they use tear gas and rubber bullets on us." The demonstrators then dispersed. They had been protesting against the violations of human rights and destruction of the economy by the ruling party, ZANU-PF.
South Africa: Dozens of EPWP Workers Not Paid Since May
Workers say they've been given the runaround by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Expanded Public Works Programme workers protest outside the Noninzi Luzipho Building in Port Elizabeth on Friday afternoon, because they have not been paid since 1 May. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane Over 50 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers protested outside Noninzi Luzipho Building in Port Elizabeth on Friday afternoon. The workers claim that they are owed backpay to 1 May 2020.
South Africa: Land Occupations Displace Initiation Schools
Traditional initiation schools are finding themselves having to compete for space as land occupations grow in Cape Town. "Land invaders are telling the people who were born in Cape Town to go perform their tradition in Eastern Cape," says Sikelela Zokufa, founder of the Somagwaza Institute, which focuses on the preservation of traditional initiation, including protecting and securing heritage sites.
South Africa: Unregistered ECD Principals Plead With Government
"Some of our teachers are resorting to occupying vacant land because they have no money to pay rent" Principals of unregistered Early Childhood Development schools picketed outside the Western Cape Department of Social Development on Thursday, pleading that they be given Covid-19 relief funds. Photo: Vincent Lali Dozens of principals of Early Childhood Development (ECD) schools picketed outside the Western Cape Department of Social Development on Thursday, pleading for Covid-19 relief funds.
South Africa: Twenty Arrested After Shops of Foreign Nationals Looted and Torched
Dozens of shops and homes occupied by foreign nationals in Thokoza, East of Johannesburg, were looted and torched on Wednesday. Many foreign national families have fled the area and are scared to return. At least 20 people have been arrested for looting and contravening the disaster regulations. Human rights groups have criticised government's inaction to deal with xenophobic attacks.
South Africa: Job Cuts, Lock-Ins, and Fear - Domestic Workers Suffer Covid-19 Squeeze
"Hunger is getting worse" says union official Domestic workers have faced the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis, say trade union officials, whose members have often been left high and dry by employers, with little protection from the government. "Hunger is getting worse," Gloria Kente, an organiser in the Western Cape for the SoutTypeh African Domestic and Service Allied Workers Union (SADSAWU). She said most domestic workers had either lost their jobs or had been indefinitely laid off due to Covid-19.
South Africa: Khayelitsha Business Owner Caught in 'Rain of Stones' During Protest
Nelly Tom has scratches and bruising on her face and her work vehicle is severely damaged Nelly Tom owns a funeral parlour in Khayelitsha's Ilitha Park. She was en route from Site C when a group of people protesting for housing and services began stoning cars on the N2. She sustained minor injuries but damage to her bakkie amounts to R20,000 and her business has suffered as a result. "I just saw two people come at me and throw stones at my bakkie.
South Africa: Residents' Association Wants Activist's Soup Kitchen Closed
"Feed them in their areas" says association chairperson Members of a residents association in Sunbird Park in Kuilsriver, Cape Town, are at loggerheads with a community activist running a soup kitchen in the area. The residents want the soup kitchen closed. In June, we reported on Latifa Jacobs's soup kitchen which she runs from the front of her parents' house in Lovebird Walk. Every day she encourages people to stand apart from each other and to wear a mask.
South Africa: Education Spending Is Falling. the Covid-19 Budget Has Slashed It Further
Yet schools are essential to the Covid-19 response Improving our education system is key to South Africa's development. Yet real per capita education spending has fallen over the past decade. And it has got worse with the recent budget in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. When Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni tabled the Supplementary Budget on 24 June, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) emerged R2.1 billion poorer.
South Africa: 'Improve Conditions At All Health Facilities' Demands TAC
Protesters give Eastern Cape health department seven days to repond to demand to produce Covid-19 plan About 130 members of the Treatment Action Campaign in the Eastern Cape picketed at the district offices of the Department of Health in Port Elizabeth on Thursday. They want the department to improve conditions at all health facilities in order to combat the spread of Covid-19.
South Africa: Not Introducing a Basic Income Grant Could Be 'Disastrous' Says ANC Report
Failure to introduce a Basic Income Grant could be "disastrous", warns an ANC document. Photo: Masixole Feni Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu announced on 13 July that the government was considering a Basic Income Grant (BIG) for everyone between 18 and 59 years old. Though there is no clarity on how this would be funded, an ANC document warns that the cost of not funding it would be "disastrous".
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