South Durban’s residents fight back against corruption, destruction and neglect Colleen steps gingerly out of her home in Clairwood, Durban. A large truck is stuck in the narrow residential road just outside her house; crumbling Colleen’s brick wall as it attempts to back out. Colleen runs out onto the muddy street, wading to her knees […]
Category Archives: Housing
Governance, Housing, Legal Resources Centre, Rights to Water
West Point Lodge families sheltered from eviction
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Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 In February 2011, the Organisation of Civic Rights approached the LRC seeking assistance for approximately 58 families who lived in a Durban inner-city building called West Point Lodge. The LRC represented the occupants in an effort to compel the […]