Articles for Marecia Damons
City of Cape Town defends its demolition of Green Point tent camp in court
Ndifuna Ukwazi says City by-laws cannot be allowed to trump constitutional rights
News | 6 September 2021
City of Cape Town demolishes tent camp, leaving homeless without shelter
Law enforcement removes people living near the Green Point Tennis Courts
News | 25 August 2021
Families want electricity bills from lockdown to be scrapped
Cape Winelands municipality battling to recover steep outstanding bills
News | 24 August 2021
Over 20 learners injured as taxi crashes into barrier at Parliament
It is alleged that the taxi was overcrowded and the driver and vehicle were unlicensed
News | 20 August 2021
Activists impatient with long wait for promised social housing
City of Cape Town says national government slow to release “well-located” land for affordable housing
News | 12 August 2021
July riots caused more than R100 million in damage to schools in KZN and Gauteng
Education department says this worsened its backlog on repairing over a thousand schools vandalised during lockdown
News | 4 August 2021
R350 Covid grant is too little and excludes too many, research report finds
Grant is used up on basic services that should be free
News | 28 July 2021
Life Esidimeni repeatedly warned health department, inquest hears
Former managing director describes transfer of patients by health department as “hurried”, “haphazard” and not conforming to discharge procedures
News | 21 July 2021
Life Esidimeni inquest will determine if health officials could be criminally convicted
Previous arbitration process found the deaths were not natural but caused unlawfully and negligently by government employees
News | 20 July 2021