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Street names 
Changing a street sign, erecting a memorial or removing a monument can be a loaded subject with political, ideological and economic implications.
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Homeless survey
How South Africans and Africas Refugees / Migrants struggle to survive on the streets. Survey and Case study of Durbans “pavement” people.
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Poor face daily battle
The collapse of some of the business giants makes front page stories and will dominate headlines as long as the market is unstable. The crises reverberate globally.
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Unraveling rent contracts
Our courts are quite reluctant to grant specific performance orders, whereby a party to a contract is ordered to do certain things as required of him / her in terms of the contract.
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Pretoria news refugees
South Africans have opened their hearts to refugees of xenophobic attacks and Durban aid organisations and churches have appealed for more help.
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Landlords resorting to D.I.Y
There is an increase in self-help remedies, especially by landlords resorting to illegal disconnection of water and electricity supply, forced evictions and illegal lockouts.
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Tribunals now shield vulnerable
Abolition of rent control left the RHA-created bodies to mediate in related disputes.
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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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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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