Housing

Two years later: Joburg’s inner city buildings at risk of another Usindiso inferno

The City of Joburg is yet to make its “dark buildings” safe

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News | 2 September 2025

Fed-up with unresponsive officials, Gqeberha protesters torch trucks

Second day of protests by shack dwellers in Westville

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Khayelitsha residents protest removal of illegal connections by Eskom

Residents of New Monwabisi Park want their illegal connections temporarily formalised while they await electrification

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Brief | 22 August 2025

Cape Town council approves social housing at “Fruit and Veg” site

237 social housing units are planned

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Brief | 22 August 2025

Gqeberha protesters block busy road, demanding better land

Residents of Nomakanjani informal settlement say they were promised they’d be moved

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Brief | 21 August 2025

School children help repair granny’s flood-damaged home

Dozens of families affected by floods in January are still without shelter. The KZN human settlements department fails to answer our questions

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Brief | 15 August 2025

Mamelodi shack dwellers given stands a decade ago still live without services

Skierlik lacks waste collection, sewage, electricity and potable water

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News | 14 August 2025

No funds to help fire victims, says municipality

Thirteen families, who have been living in a community hall in Butterworth for a month, have been ordered to leave

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Brief | 13 August 2025

College tries to evict 27 families to make way for students

At a protest Ekurhuleni West students demanded the eviction of the families in “24 hours”

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News | 13 August 2025

Former rail line occupiers demand electricity

Protesters blocked the R300 in Cape Town on Thursday

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Brief | 8 August 2025

Millions were spent to relocate these families, but they still live in squalor

Gauteng Department of Human Settlements spent R78-million on plans that never materialised

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News | 30 July 2025

Social housing and the future of Cape Town’s inner-city

Affordable housing in the inner city is no longer a dream, says MEC

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Opinion | 27 July 2025

Artscape social housing development moves ahead

1,476 social housing units planned at 16-storey development

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Brief | 25 July 2025

Gqeberha ward councillor leads protest for services in Soweto-on-Sea

Demonstrators led by ANC Councillor Xolile Vingqi blocked entry to the municipal Lillian Diedericks Building

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Brief | 23 July 2025

Immigrant families left homeless after eviction from army land in Marievale

The SANDF has denied claims that it did not offer alternative accommodation

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News | 23 July 2025

Hundreds of people face eviction from abandoned Sibanye-Stillwater mining village

Families, among them former mine workers, occupied houses in Waterpan Village seven years ago. The company wants them out.

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News | 14 July 2025