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Landless People and informal Settlements in South Africa

Landless: The Plight of South Africa’s Informal Settlements

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Submitted by mmalta on Thu, 28/04/2011 - 3:58pm

“Though it has been over a decade since South Africa has become a free and democratic country, human rights violations still occur. Forced evictions of informal settlements, reminiscent of those that occurred during the apartheid regime, have uprooted people from their homes and displaced them in distant locations. Alfred ‘General’ Moyo is one of these evicted persons who have become a part of the Landless People’s Movement in an effort to resist the unlawful and unconstitutional removal of settlements in the Johannesburg area by the provincial government.”

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