Prepped Motion #1 (Group C: Grade 6-7)
The government should evict people who invade unoccupied housing not allocated to them
Suggested Readings:
- Backyard dwellers invade housing project
- A stand-off between private security companies and backyard dwellers from areas like Woodstock, Manenber, Elsies River, Riverside and Kalkfontein took place on Friday. The message is clear: They want houses and some say they’ve been on the waiting list for more than 15 years.
- Gauteng housing projects invaded as beneficiaries wait for homes
- Fourteen of Gauteng's 45 government-funded housing projects have been illegally occupied, leaving legitimate beneficiaries waiting for homes amid costly eviction processes and project delays.
Prepped Motion #2 (Group D: Grade 4-5)
Parents who do not vaccinate their children should be arrested
Suggested Readings:
- https://www.news24.com/politics/health-department-sounds-alarm-as-vaccination-rates-drop-diseases-spike-20260905-0895
- Outreach drive targets declining childhood vaccination rates in KZN
- With childhood and infant immunisation rates declining across the country, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health is intensifying efforts to encourage parents and caregivers to ensure that children receive their routine vaccinations on Tuesday.
- Vaccine hesitancy can’t be boiled down to a single factor: what we learnt in South Africa and Brazil
- Vaccine uptake has been declining in Brazil and South Africa over the last decade. This decline has reversed important gains in protecting children against vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, polio, diphtheria and whooping cough.
