A year ago we released this video. What has changed since then? City of Cape Town where is the inclusionary housing policy?

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New post in which Thandeka Kathi argues that the Johanneburg fires in Aug 2023 are an urgent call to action, requiring a re-evaluation of priorities to remedy the deeply ingrained inequalities in the South African urban spaces Mandisa Lusanda Shandu Faculty of Law blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/housing-after-…

Justice Madlanga of Constitutional Court asked if the Bromwell matter is a replication of apartheid-era forced removals. Here are transcripts of the question and the City's Advocate's convoluted response to the very simple question: #standwithbromwell #endspatialinjustice

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I’m so sad about the murder of Halima Hoosen-Preston. A senseless murder. A child, who is also recovering in hospital along with his dad, has lost his mother, because some deranged Zionist came into her home and stabbed her to death. I cannot believe this has even happened.

Congratulations "Mother City" team for your special mention at the Sheffield DocFest awards!! This still frame is of Mandisa Lusanda Shandu during the Tafelberg matter Reclaim the City @ WCHighCourt overturning the sale - this NB documentary will be opening in SA this week Encounters Festival #seapoint

🚨🚨🚨 Go watch MOTHER CITY!!! Encounters Festival And then, fight on, ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 😪 Amandla ✊🏾 Ndifuna Ukwazi Nkosikhona Swaartbooi 🖤 Mandisa Lusanda Shandu 🖤 Axolile Notywala 🖤

Mandisa Lusanda Shandu mothercitydocumentary Encounters Festival Nkosikhona Swaartbooi Nomzamo Zondo NelsonMandela I was in the audience yesterday: what a film … so hard to watch in some parts, of course. Big up to everyone involved. Will definitely be following the case closely when it gets to the con court.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in collaboration with the 26th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, is hosting a screening of the documentary Mother City from 5.30pm to 9pm today, 28 June 2024. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion

"I’ve been on a bit of a documentary binge lately, and one that hit quite close to home was Mother City, which was recently screened at the Encounters SA International Documentary Film Festival in Cape Town. The documentary was spearheaded by civil society movements Reclaim

[PRESS STATEMENT] SCA holds that municipalities cannot demolish without a court order. The matter was brought by the SAHRCommission (represented by Legal Resources Centre) against the City of Cape Town following the demolitions at the Ethembeni informal settlement | tinyurl.com/y5een55z

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA APPOINTS JUSTICE MANDISA MAYA AS CHIEF JUSTICE President Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 has, in terms of Section 174(3) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, appointed current Deputy Chief Justice Mandisa Maya as Chief Justice of the Republic of South

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-THREAD- HUGE NEWS!!! The City of Cape Town has announced its intention to pursue a mixed-income, mixed-use development at Mowbray Golf Course including affordable housing and genuinely accessible public open space. Years of activist pressure and advocacy are starting to pay off! 1/9

Significant but bittersweet victory for the organisations and movements that have campaigned for this underutilised well-located public land to be developed inclusively since 2018. Good to see some progress, but I worry that it will include very few genuinely affordable homes 1/n

Charnell Commando and the people of Bromwell Street has won a victory against market-related forced removal at the Constitutional Court. Now, the City of Cape Town must ensure that #CapeTown rentals become affordable. groundup.org.za/article/concou… Great job Ndifuna Ukwazi in persisting.

The final hearing of the Tafelberg matter has brought together some former NU staffers, who were with us at the beginning of this story, wonderful to have them with us at Constitutional Court today: Nkosikhona Swaartbooi & Mandisa Lusanda Shandu [If you don't know: mothercitydocumentary] Reclaim the City