Articles for Vincent Lali
Sinkholes open under Khayelitsha shacks, flooding homes with sewage
The whole of Khayelitsha is affected by a blocked sewer line, says City of Cape Town
By Vincent Lali
News | 25 January 2024
Mandela Park shacks petrol-bombed
This is the latest in a series of attacks on this group of land occupiers since August
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 November 2023
Shack dwellers want sand mining halted
They say the sand is damaging their shacks. The City of Cape Town says the affected households will only be relocated in 2024
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 November 2023
Khayelitsha schools battle illegal electricity connections
Electricity theft has left Nomsa Maphongwana Primary School in Mandela Park with a Eskom bill of more than R167,880
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 November 2023
Protection racket halts toilet cleaning in Khayelitsha
Service provider withdrew after threats at gunpoint and extortion attempts
By Sandiso Phaliso and Vincent Lali
News | 9 November 2023
Fire victims sleep outside to protect their plots
“We sleep with our kids on our plots because we don’t want other residents to build their own shacks on them”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 3 November 2023
Two die and hundreds left homeless by Khayelitsha fire
Frustrated victims then occupied vacant land nearby
By Vincent Lali
News | 30 October 2023
Backyarders demolish shacks in Cape Town
Violence and tensions between land occupiers and backyarders has been brewing for months in Khayelitsha
By Vincent Lali
News | 26 October 2023
“I saw my shoes float on water and heard my cat meow”
Western Cape mops up after devastating floods
By Vincent Lali and Ashraf Hendricks
News | 26 September 2023