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City responsible for tenants welfare     
Legal precedents explore municipality's flawed position on city "sweatshops".
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Durbans homeless surviving on R4 a day     
Homeless struggle in Durban.
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Exploitation of Foreigners Shocking     
Municipalities massively overcharge the vulnerable.
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April Homeless Survey 08     
How South Africans and Africa's Refugees-Migrants struggle to survive on the streets.
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City body fights city eviction     
Sutcliffe hits back at rehousing demand.
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Constitution trumps city by-laws     
Municipal authority may not circumvent the common law.
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Constitutional freedoms     
When a judgment is delivered, people take positions, and it is not uncommon for lawyers, academics and the public to engage in criticism.
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Durban takes the lead in refurbishing housing     
More people need to be empowered with skills to rebuild and reclaim the city.
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Hajara court May 09     
Anger as water supply to flats cut-off.
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Lift Survey analysed 2010     
The lives of people are held together by fragile tapes of desperation with little hope of the authorities intervening meaningfully
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The challenges of sectional title in the low-cost sector     
There are certain challenges common to all sectional title owners, irrespective of their social or financial status.
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Tireless fighter
A tribute to Billy Nair, a Civic rights activist and founding member of the Durban Central Residents Association (DCRA).
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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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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 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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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. The late Professor Fatima Meer internationally renowned human rights activist and freedom fighter; Dr. Omaruddin (Don) Mattera who is a world renowned poet and writer, the late 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 and Ela Ghandi.

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)
 
 
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