Housing

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Joburg wheelchair users demand houses

City criticised for sidelining them

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Brief | 8 May 2025

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Homes bulldozed in Roodepoort

City of Joburg says this is not an “eviction” but a “relocation”

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News | 8 May 2025

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Chaos in Flagstaff as municipality demolishes homes ‘sold’ by chief

Municipality says property is earmarked for development

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News | 7 May 2025

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District Six families must wait at least three more years to return

Government has not yet secured funding to build the houses

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Feature | 6 May 2025

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Langa families were moved to a “temporary” area in 2002. They are still there

Their living conditions are dire

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News | 29 April 2025

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Families who were moved for the 2010 World Cup are still living in their “transit camp”

Residents of KwaDabeka camp implore the eThekwini municipality to hear their pleas

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Brief | 29 April 2025

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Major legal battle looms over Stellenbosch luxury estate

Botmaskop developer says it has complied with statutory requirements

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News | 23 April 2025

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Blaauwberg residents locked in battle over dune development

Ecologically sensitive land is at risk, and some of those who oppose the project say their input has not been taken into account

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News | 23 April 2025

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Court halts further work on luxury Stellenbosch mountain estate

Botsmaskop development stopped, pending a full court review

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News | 17 April 2025

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Future of Khoisan settlement in Grabouw hangs in the balance

Knoflokskraal has a restaurant, nursery, livestock farming and vegetable gardens, but little water

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News | 16 April 2025

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Should you give handouts at traffic lights? A view from the street

People helping do so out of goodwill and with the best intentions

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Opinion | 15 April 2025

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Pensioner who was allocated an RDP house 15 years ago still lives in a mud hut

Free State Department of Human Settlements has promised to help the 75-year-old from Naledi village in Qwaqwa get a house

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News | 11 April 2025

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Developer of R300m Stellenbosch housing estate fights back

Botmaskop Fynbos Estate says a court interdict stopping construction will be “catastrophic”

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News | 11 April 2025

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Department of Public Works bungles Darling Street eviction application

State Attorney did not communicate with residents and failed to enrol the case properly

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News | 10 April 2025

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Landmark judgment on evictions in Johannesburg

City ordered to pay compensation to owner of “hijacked” building because of delay in providing alternative accommodation to residents

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Law | 10 April 2025

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Western Cape promises progress on inner-city housing projects

Several social housing projects in Cape Town will go to tender this year

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News | 9 April 2025