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PATRONS
Patrons
 
Internationally renowned stalwarts have become patrons of the OCR:
Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durban, South Africa, The late, most revered Archbishop Denis Hurley, Archbishop Emeritus of Durban was OCR’s first patron. Present three patrons are: Professor Fatima Meer internationally renowned human rights activist and freedom fighter; Dr. Omaruddin (Don) Mattera who is a world renowned poet and writer and and Mr. Billy Nair, freedom fighter, former member of national Parliament (10 years); who served 19 years imprisonment in Robin Island and was the founding member of the OCR in 1984

TRUSTEES:
The late Prof. Leonard Gering was the deputy chair of the DCRA Trust; Prof. Suleman Dangor, Adv. Tayob Nazeer, Aboobaker, SC; Ms. Sibongile Doreen Khuzwayo, Krubashen Moodley, Sibonelo Trustworth Ngubane, Lionel Grewen
 
EXECUTIVE MEMBERS:
Executive Members
Norman Hudson - Retired Bishop; Ms. Yoliswa Gladys Mhlaba - Deputy Chairperson; Ms. Alice Ntombikayise Tukute ; Dr. Sayed Iqbal Mohamed - Chairperson; Mr. David Jack - Treasurer; Mr. Yunus Goolam Mohamed Osman - Deputy Treasurer; Mr. Krubashen Manickum Moodley; Ms. Angel Paulsen - General Secretary
 
OTHER EXECUTIVE MEMBERS
Thembelani Liana
Thembelani Adam Mncanywa and Ms. Liana Visagie (Mpumalanga province)
 
Lift Survey Lift Survey 2007     
A random survey of buildings in parts of the Durban inner city, and a suburb shows that 67% have lifts that are defective or not functioning.
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RHT RHT Analysis 2007     
The role of the RHT is to provide the mechanism for dispute resolution with the least amount of inconvenience and cost to the disputants.
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Naido v Choonoo S Naidu v J Choonoo    
This is a matter in which the plaintiff’s capital claim in his simple summons is based on a contract of lease wherein which he claims payment of the sum of R 1300.00 in respect of arrear rental he alleges is owing to him for defendant’s occupation and tenancy.
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Rental Housing – Plight of the Poor    
The ANC led government has injected tremendous efforts in reconstructing a country devastated by a legacy of colonialism and apartheid and expanded extraordinary energy to the building of a fledgling democracy.
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Body corporate over-ruled    
A Durban court has ordered the body corporate of a Durban block of flats to compensate a flat owner for lost rental after it deemed a prospective tenant "shady and unacceptable..."
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Tenants fight eviction order claiming they need more time
More than 100 people, including refugees, foreign nationals and South African citizens face eviction from their Durban homes today because their new landlords have instructed them to vacate their flats...
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Sad story of refugee tenants
The story of tenants at Inverallan is the sad story of refugee tenants. Foreign nationals/refugees are the latest victims at the hands of unscrupulous landlords and their agents. Tenants are locked out and their belongings either illegally seized or thrown into the streets.
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Arusha – appalling conditions. Absentee landlords
Where tenants are subjected to unhygienic living conditions, exorbitant rentals and an unsafe environment. A building without owners and a café owner who controls the flow of water…
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“SWEATSHOPS”/“WORK-HOUSES”:
The conditions under which children and their parents live
New municipal legislation has done nothing to stop the exploitation of about 10 500 workers crammed into sweatshops in Durban's central business district by unscrupulous landlords and businessmen.
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Traders angry over Tender
Accusations that traders at the Church Walk fleamarket were not informed of the decision to put the market out to tender have been angrily rebutted by the eThekweni Municipality.
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