22 April 2016 Att: Mr Thulani Madikane (City Manager’s Office) Re: Objection to sale of portions of erf 564, Khayelitsha Forward 1. The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is a democratic, public benefit and membership-based social movement. The majority of its members are working-class and poor individuals, most of who live in the informal settlements of…
DetailsSJC Submission on Draft National Sanitation Policy 11 April 2016
Today, March 30, 2016, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Equal Education (EE) have announced that they will be taking Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko and the acting National Commissioner of Police Kgomotso Phahlane to court on the ongoing inequitable, irrational and unjust allocation of police resources. The announcement was made at a press conference…
DetailsThe memorandum being delivered to Major General Brand (Khayeltsha Cluster Commander) and Colonel Raboliba (Harare Station Commander) today by the Social Justice Coalition regarding the case of Sinoxolo Mafevuka and SAPS operational and structural inefficiencies can be viewed here: Memorandum on Sinoxolo Mafevuka and SAPS operational and structural inefficiencies (15 March 2016) For comment please…
DetailsIn the past week people living in South Africa and specifically in Cape Town were told “a tale of two cities”. In this tale the differing responses from the South African Police Service (SAPS) to the tragic rape and murder of two young teenage women, Sinoxolo Mafevuka (19) and Franziska Blochliger (16), in Cape Town were extensively covered. It is…
DetailsThe Social Justice Coalition (SJC) welcomes the introduction of a Draft National Sanitation Policy gazetted by Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane on 12 February 2016, and currently open for comments until 14 March 2016. The SJC is engaging the department on the policy and we will be publishing our full submission in the coming…
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