SJC launches court case against the City of Cape Town over failures in sanitation provision in informal settlements Today, 1 July 2016, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) will launch a court case against the City of Cape Town over its failure to fulfil the right of access to sanitation to poor, Black and marginalised residents…
The City of Cape Town passed a budget of just over R41 billion in a flawed process that discriminates against its poor and working class residents. On 15 April 2016 I wrote on GroundUp: Whose voices really matter in the City of Cape Town’s budget? In my article I detailed how last year 502 Khayelitsha…
Tomorrow, 24 May 2016, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) will march and deliver a petition with demands to the City of Cape Town. This is ahead of Mayor Patricia de Lille’s 2016/17 budget speech in council on 25 May 2016. The petition, signed by more than 5000 Khayelitsha residents, is calling for the Mayor to…
Today, 29 April 2016, Khayelitsha residents, together with the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) will hand over individual submissions on the City of Cape Town’s 2016/17 draft budget. Over the past two weeks 3000 submissions have been collected. This will mark the first time that the Mayor will receive thousands of direct submissions from poor and working class…
The City of Cape Town is planning to sell public land to private developers that should be used for essential policing services for the Khayelitsha community. On 24 March 2016 the City issued a municipal notice calling for public comments and/or objections on the proposed sale of a portion of erf 564 in Khayelitsha. The…
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…
SJC 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…
The 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…
In 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…