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A new research report published by the Public Affairs Research Institute reveals that in the 2019/20 financial year alone, about R9-billion budgeted and disbursed by National Treasury to local government for the provision of free basic electricity (FBE) to the poorest of the poor has been misappropriated by municipalities.
The report,
Broken Promises: Electricity access for low-income households – good policy intentions, bad trade-offs and unintended consequences, by Dr Tracy Ledger, further shows that in the six financial years from 2014/15 to 2019/20, about R38.3-billion disbursed by National Treasury for FBE to indigent households failed to reach the intended recipients, and was instead used by municipalities for other unauthorised purposes.
Domestic workers need more time to claim for work injuries, says unions
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Cape Town - Unions for domestic workers and other civil society organisations said the deadline for the domestic workers to apply for retrospective claims, on injuries sustained at work, was unreasonably short.
The compensation commissioner advertised, in the Government Gazette, that the cut off date for the claims was November 20.
Domestic workers were included in the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA), from November last year, in a judgment by the Constitutional Court. It also ruled that the order of constitutional validity was to have immediate and retrospective effect from April 27, 1994.
After a year of business rescue efforts, property developer Propertuity liquidated and sold off its buildings,
Those holdings were part of a redevelopment from Jeppe Hostel, through New Doornfontein to the edge of Hillbrow.
The area pioneered a process whose ripples are increasingly seen in dispossession and clearances across Johannesburg s inner city.
Back in the early 2010s, Blk Jks guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata was drinking coffee at a pavement cafe in the newly gentrifying inner-city area of Maboneng when two Zulu-speaking workers walked past. One hadn’t seen the new development and its hipster denizens before and was disturbed. But his friend reassured him: “Don’t worry, mfana, it’s just a movie set. They’ll take it all down again soon.”
Squatters allowed back into Dunkeld West private property after rights group steps in
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Johannesburg - The homeless Dunkeld West squatters, who were evicted earlier this month from a private property in Bompas Road, have settled back onto the property.
They were evicted on April 6 by the Red Ant security relocation and eviction services, with the supervision of the sheriff, who illegally evicted dozens of residents from their homes, leaving them homeless and destitute.
According to the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri) the court order was not legal as it was only against preventing further people entering the property to squat. It was not an eviction order, so the previous occupiers were restored on April 9.