South Africa|Kwazulu-Natal|Durban

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Covid-19: How can children wash their hands if they’re homeless? asks activist

Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League slams demolitions

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News | 7 April 2020

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Covid-19: I wouldn’t go back to the streets says homeless man

Over 2,000 homeless people placed in shelters in Durban

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News | 6 April 2020

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Covid-19: Shack demolitions continue in Durban despite moratorium plea

Abahlali BaseMjondolo accuse eThekwini Municipality of using the lockdown to “wage a war” against the movement

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News | 3 April 2020

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Covid-19: “Look at him pretending to care” - cool welcome for mayor at Glebelands hostel

“Our rubbish has not been collected for four weeks. But the truck suddenly comes at the same time as the mayor today.”

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News | 2 April 2020

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Covid-19: eThekwini accused of defying ban on evictions

All evictions suspended by government

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News | 30 March 2020

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Judge bars lawyers from collecting fees for “vexatious” land claim case

For years, law firm Sinama and Associates pursued a land claim with “no shred of evidence”, ending in a loss for the claimants

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Law | 18 March 2020

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“People are dying and getting injured everyday on this road,” says Cornubia resident

EThekwini Municipality says it is considering erecting a temporary steel pedestrian bridge on the R102

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Brief | 12 March 2020

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After being excluded for two years, Wandile, 8, starts school

KZN child was denied education because he has no birth certificate

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Brief | 25 February 2020

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Abahlali marches in support of land expropriation

“We want government to give us title deeds for the land that we are already occupying”

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News | 24 February 2020

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Black women married under apartheid act win court victory

Judge rules that Black Administration Act marriages are, by default, in communion of property

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Law | 14 February 2020

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Violent protests after taps run dry in Ntuzuma

Municipality says load shedding is partly to blame for water crisis

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News | 6 February 2020

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Sick Durban river spoils popular recreational lagoon

Civil action could address pollution in Mdloti river

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News | 3 February 2020

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Neighbour saves children from burning shack

“He heard little voices coming from the inside”

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News | 7 January 2020

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“Illegal and criminal” demolitions in Durban, say shack dwellers

“This was a new invasion and the people had not settled there. No court order was required,” says City

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Brief | 16 October 2019

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Glebelands witness denies involvement in murder

Trial adjourned to next year

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Law | 20 September 2019

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Students arrested after attack on security guard

Guard escapes through a window after petrol bomb thrown into guardroom at Durban University of Technology

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Brief | 19 September 2019