Housing
R1-billion to fix North West’s failed housing projects
The province is sitting with roughly 25,400 unfinished homes
Text by Seth Thorne. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee.
News | 1 October 2026
Airbnb by-law doesn’t do enough to address Cape Town’s housing crisis
Only primary residences should be allowed on Airbnb
By Leila Kidson
Opinion | 1 October 2026
Woodstock land occupiers lose bid to appeal eviction
Insufficient evidence that occupiers will be left homeless, judge finds
Brief | 30 September 2026
Cape Town Airbnb hosts could pay triple rates
Short-term letting properties may be subject to commercial rates
News | 28 September 2026
Cape Town roads blocked in electricity protest
Philippi informal settlement residents want the City of Cape Town to negotiate with the private landowners to install services
Brief | 23 September 2026
State land must be used for housing, activists say
Applications were submitted three years ago, but vast areas of government-owned land remain unused
Brief | 23 September 2026
Gugulethu backyarders fed up waiting for promised houses
Despite funding being secured and a contractor appointed, the housing project has stalled
News | 22 September 2026
Three years of silence on state land. Communities pay the cost
Government asked communities applying for land to follow the rules. Then it went silent.
By Luyanda Mtamzeli and Nonceba Ndlebe
Opinion | 18 September 2026
Dunoon residents’ housing hopes dashed
City plans mixed-income development not state housing for 72-hectare site
By Peter Luhanga and Abonge Chiya
News | 16 September 2026