South Africa

How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations

Here are seven proposals

Luyolo land claimants to wait another three years for housing project

“For years people showed us plans for housing then disappeared without anything being done. Many of us had lost hope”

Community leaders oppose Makhaza occupation

“I have been on the housing database for years, but I still have no house” says occupier

Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics

Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee

Lockdown in pictures - Day 122: Worship

SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest

Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement

Lockdown in pictures - Day 121: Eating out

Judge Makhubele skips Zondo Commission due to “trauma” after tyre puncture

Judge Zondo orders that Makhubele return to give oral testimony on 3 August

SJC head Axolile Notywala arrested

Witness claims arrested activists were filming police but not obstructing them

Lockdown in pictures - Day 120: Grade R closed

At least four arrested during #ServeUsPlease protest

Police use a water cannon and stun grenades to disperse about 200 peaceful protesters

Zimbabweans who missed food assistance deadline are desperate

Many immigrants are struggling to get food in South Africa

District Six: This time the bulldozers are there to build houses

Long-buried houses revealed as diggers clear the site for housing

Lottery officials removed a webpage and then accused us of falsely reporting what was on it

This latest dodgy move suggests that the NLC has no intention of publishing the list of grant recipients

Covid-19 hits East Rand hard

Benoni shelter battles increase in poverty

In photos: Standoff between police and occupiers of Cape Town nature reserve

This is an especially large occupation