Margot Rubin

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Residents of Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town use community patrols to provide their own security. Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

South Africans are going off the service grid: what happens when citizens replace the state?

Christina Culwick Fatti, University of the Western Cape; Charlotte Lemanski, University of Cambridge; Fiona Anciano, University of the Western Cape, and Margot Rubin, Cardiff University

Failing water, power, sanitation and security services in South Africa are spurring households and communities to do it themselves.
The aftermath of a 2021 fire disaster in an abandoned building in central Johannesburg. Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Johannesburg fire: there was a plan to fix derelict buildings and provide good accommodation ‑ how to move forward

Marie Huchzermeyer, University of the Witwatersrand; Amira Osman, Tshwane University of Technology; Hannah le Roux, University of the Witwatersrand; Margot Rubin, Cardiff University; Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, University of the Witwatersrand; Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane, University of the Witwatersrand; Neil Klug, University of the Witwatersrand; Philip Harrison, University of the Witwatersrand; Priscila Izar, University of the Witwatersrand; Sarah Charlton, University of the Witwatersrand; Sarita Pillay Gonzalez, University of the Witwatersrand, and Tanya Zack, University of the Witwatersrand

Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.

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