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    A man looks on from a squatter camp on the edge of the Jukskei river by Alexandra township after heavy rainfall, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe ...

  3. Alexandra, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Alexandra, informally abbreviated to Alex, [2] is a township in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It forms part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and is located next to the wealthy suburb of Sandton. Alexandra is bounded by Wynberg on the west, Marlboro and Kelvin on the north, Kew, Lombardy West and Lombardy East on the ...

  4. Minister of Public Works v Kyalami Ridge Environmental ...

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    This was not an administrative decision; it was a decision taken by the state as owner of the land. It did not require legislative authorisation. The government disputed that it had breached the township or environmental legislation, and also disputed the claim that it was obliged to afford the residents a hearing before taking the decision.

  5. Alexandra Renewal Project - Wikipedia

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    The Alexandra Renewal Project (ARP) is an urban renewal project in Alexandra, Gauteng, northern Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] [2] The project is one of eight urban nodes of the "Integrated Sustainable Rural Development and Urban Renewal Programme" announced by President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament on 9 February 2001.

  6. South African township squalid and neglected despite 25 ... - AOL

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    Ditsela's Johannesburg township, Alexandra, has seen protests against overcrowding and poor public services in the run-up to a general election on May 8. ... The shocking conditions in which ...

  7. South Africans go to the polls in election seen as biggest ...

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    Workers for political parties including the African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) stand next to a voting station on May 27 in Alexandra Township, South Africa.

  8. 2016 Johannesburg flood - Wikipedia

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    Flooding was reported in Midrand, Edenvale and Bedfordview; [9] while a three-year-old girl was swept away in Alexandra. [10] Housing and cars were also swept away in Alexandra, and the Gauteng Human Settlements Department was providing temporary accommodation while the Province had set up the Johannesburg Disaster Management Centre.

  9. Xenophobia in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    According to a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, immigrants from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique living in the Alexandra township were "physically assaulted over a period of several weeks in January 1995, as armed gangs identified suspected undocumented migrants and marched them to the police station in an attempt to 'clean' the township of ...