Topic: Housing | GroundUp

Pensioner gets her house after government admits mistake

Free State housing department’s database incorrectly showed Maleroele Molato had received a house 15 years ago

By Tladi Moloi

News | 28 May 2025

Durban hostels crumble but families have nowhere else to go

Thousands of people live in Lamontville’s apartheid-era hostels

By Joseph Bracken

Photo Essay | 26 May 2025

City says there’s no money for water and toilets for Mamelodi settlement

Residents say they have no choice but to illegally connect electricity and water

Text by Warren Mabona. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.

News | 24 May 2025

Dunoon residents threaten more protests over demolitions

They want the City of Cape Town to help resolve the housing crisis in the community

By Iva Fulepu

News | 23 May 2025

Housing plans for Tafelberg site revealed

Western Cape Government plans combination of social, affordable and high-end housing units

By Matthew Hirsch

News | 22 May 2025

Two people die during Soweto hostel protest

Anger over the dilapidated hostel has been simmering for years

By Silver Sibiya

Brief | 19 May 2025

Residents of emergency housing in Durban protest against eviction

Province says they earn too much to qualify to stay, but they disagree

By Tsoanelo Sefoloko

Brief | 14 May 2025

Judge slams Gauteng land grab

The “use of court processes and laws which are designed to protect the vulnerable is deplorable”, says Judge Denise Fisher

By Tania Broughton

Law | 13 May 2025

Dunoon erupts in protest after the City of Cape Town knocks down walls in informal settlement

Residents have been replacing shacks with brick and mortar homes

By Peter Luhanga

News | 13 May 2025

Buffalo City wants to recover R16-million in Covid housing funds

Officials and contractors need to pay up, council resolves

By Johnnie Isaac and GroundUp Staff

News | 9 May 2025

Families in Cape Town’s squalid backyards are still waiting for promised housing project

The Greater Retreat Housing project was announced in 2018

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 9 May 2025

Joburg wheelchair users demand houses

City criticised for sidelining them

By Silver Sibiya

Brief | 8 May 2025

Homes bulldozed in Roodepoort

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

By Silver Sibiya

News | 8 May 2025

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

Municipality says property is earmarked for development

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Yamkela Ntshongwana

News | 7 May 2025

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

Government has not yet secured funding to build the houses

By Matthew Hirsch and Daniel Steyn

Feature | 6 May 2025

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

Their living conditions are dire

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 29 April 2025