Articles for Barbara October

Ramaphosa asked to keep his promise to freeze farm evictions

20,000 people threatened by evictions in Drakenstein, Human Rights Commission told

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News | 5 April 2018

Education department blames Grootkraal community for delays

Supreme Court of Appeal to hear case on community’s right to land in Oudtshoorn

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News | 3 April 2018

Over 5 million social grant beneficiaries to pay R10 “bank charge”

SASSA assures MPs that all grants will be paid from 1 April

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News | 28 March 2018

Evicted residents distressed at prospect of living in Wolwerivier

The temporary relocation area is far from social grant paypoints, medical facilities, shopping malls, work opportunities and the police station

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News | 19 March 2018

2.5 million people at risk of not receiving social grants on time

Provincial heads at the South African Social Security Agency briefed Parliament on contingency plans

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Parliament | 16 March 2018

Court orders Brett Herron to explain emergency housing options

City officials to visit Wolwerivier with activists this weekend

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News | 13 March 2018

Woodstock residents shocked by prospect of life in Wolwerivier

Community warns of conflict if more people relocated to overcrowded settlement

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News | 13 March 2018

Housing picket outside Brett Herron’s home

Herron says Wolwerivier is all the City can offer for now

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News | 6 March 2018

Black Sash back to Constitutional Court over social grants

Organisation wants data protection for grant beneficiaries and a moratorium on issuing Easy Pay Everywhere cards

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Brief | 5 March 2018

Manenberg parents demand donated funds from school

Principal says money to be used for next year’s fees

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News | 5 March 2018

City says no money to house evictees in Woodstock

Albert Road residents refuse to move to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier

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Brief | 1 March 2018

Spat over water on Drakenstein farm

Owner reconnects water supply to families after complaints

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News | 27 February 2018

Farm workers picket wine festival

Lack of clean drinking water and toilets in the vineyards

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Brief | 27 February 2018

State to appeal landmark Gatherings Act ruling

Police believe giving notice allows them to “facilitate the right to protest”

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Law | 22 February 2018

“I am not a pilchard, I refuse to live in a tin”

Woodstock evictees offered relocation to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier

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News | 21 February 2018

Woodstock residents to testify in bid to save their homes

Landlord’s lawyer argues that private owners do not have the same obligation to provide housing as government

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Brief | 19 February 2018