The article below, written by Ndifuna Ukwazi researcher Fritz Jooste, appears in today’s edition of Cape Times under the title ‘Now is time for action on municipal services for poorer communities’. It recognises recent commitments made by Cape Town mayor, Patricia De Lille, and the City to address service delivery shortcomings in poorer areas through,
Education Infrastructure Crisis — Holding government to account
FRITZ JOOSTE & ZENANDE BOOI Mail & Guardian Recent widely reported disruptions of teaching and learning, all related to inadequate school infrastructure, show the urgent importance of the legal action launched last month against the government to address this long-standing problem. Last month pupils at Menziwa Senior Secondary School in the Eastern Cape burned down
Basil D’Oliveira obituary
Though Basil D’Oliveira, who has died aged 80 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was one of the greatest cricketers ever to come out of South Africa, he will be best remembered for the dramatic role he played in helping to defy apartheid in sport. As a mixed-race – in South African terms, “coloured” – player
Service Delivery Agreements: basic services in Cape Town’s informal settlements
For the past three months Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Social Justice Coalition have sought information from the City of Cape Town Supply Chain Management (SCM) about all active tenders for the provision of sanitation and refuse collection services to informal settlements. On 20 October 2011 SCM supplied us with copies of the tenderers’ submissions for
MUNICIPAL SECRECY NOT ON: Citizens have a right to information
The lived experience of people in informal settlements is a dehumanising defiance of the constitutional and moral obligations that require the state to treat every person as having equal dignity and rights. Uncollected rubbish, floating faeces and the ever-present threat of crime are constants in the lives of people such as Nomlungisi Qezo and her
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