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South Africa:
Kennedy Attack Witness Testifies in Camera
SAPA, 1 December 2010
Proceedings in the Kennedy Road informal settlement attack trial were held in camera on Wednesday after a state witness refused to testify. Read more »
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South Africa:
Intergroup Conflict Leads to Murder Trial
SAPA, 30 November 2010
A man who was stabbed and beaten during an attack at Durban's Kennedy Road informal settlement last year bust into tears in court on Tuesday when he recounted what happened. Read more »
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South Africa:
Rights Group Calls for Probe Into Violence
Business Day, 21 December 2009
HUMAN rights organisation Amnesty International has thrown its weight behind the call for an independent commission of inquiry into September's violence in KwaZulu-Natal's Kennedy… Read more »
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South Africa:
Durban's Bedtime Stories - Abahlali Basemjondolo's Struggle Continues
Fahamu, 17 December 2009
In a house in a leafy Durban suburb, lightly festooned with Christmas decorations, a TV is playing the Adam Sandler movie 'Bedtime Stories'. Across scenes of gumballs falling from… Read more »
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South Africa:
Academics Condemn Attack On Settlement
Business Day, 29 September 2009
PROMINENT lawyers and academics have blamed "powerful local property and political interests" for violence in the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban, which left two people… Read more »
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Southern Africa:
Rights Group Calls For Probe of Durban Violence
AI London, 21 December 2009
Amnesty International deplores the continuing failure of the South African authorities to investigate impartially and fully human rights abuses which occurred during and after… Read more »
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South Africa:
Kennedy Road Truth Being Hidden
Business Day, 7 October 2009
African National Congress (ANC) stalwart and transport, community safety and liaison MEC Willies Mchunu has been sending out many press statements and holding a number of press… Read more »
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South Africa:
Shack Dwellers Clash With Ruling ANC in Durban
Fahamu, 1 October 2009
Following the attacks and deaths of Abahali baseMjondolo members at the hands of African National Congress (ANC) members at Kennedy Road, S'bu Zikode condemns developments that… Read more »
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South Africa:
Slum Law Evictions Ruled to Be Unlawful
Business Day, 15 October 2009
THE Constitutional Court yesterday declared unconstitutional a law making it compulsory for municipalities to evict unlawful occupiers of slums when landowners failed to do so… Read more »