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  • They stressed that their lifestyle of poverty in the shackland around the memorial was unacceptable 10 years into democracy.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Milnerton town clerk Peter Gerber had a full schedule of meetings with shackland and other community leaders on Monday and said later in the day the Defence Force had agreed to make up to 500 tents available for erection on vacant land beside Marconi Beam.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Its brick buildings lie in deep shackland where scrawny dogs trot through refuse-choked alleys and policemen patrol nervously at night.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party officials jointly monitoring the shackland to ensure a successful peace initiative.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • This comes amid repeated African National Congress criticism of the ISU's operations in the overcrowded shackland north of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Several meetings between the African National Congress, the SAP and the Inkatha Freedom Party have failed to stop almost daily killings in the dense shackland about 20km north of Durban.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Five others were also injured in clashes in the shackland, described by observers as a "war zone".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Ramotladi set himself up in business selling water in the thirsty squatter camp while gambling on the side; that was the start of his little shackland empire as a shebeenowner, butchery-owner then ANC ward councillor, his makeshift office increasingly controlling the trade in goods, jobs, services and plots of land in "Jeffsville".

    Anarkismo.net 2010

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