Housing
Students say private accommodation is expensive and unsafe in PE
Protesters demand municipality convert derelict buildings into residences
Brief | 16 September 2020
Councillor defends Cape Town’s record on homeless people
“Cape Town sprang into action, reaching roughly double the number of homeless persons compared to the whole of Gauteng”
Right to reply | 11 September 2020
Spatial injustice remains at core of rising inequality
Activists believe a radical “new normal” is needed for land reform
By Kyla Hazell and Nkosikhona Swartbooi
Opinion | 10 September 2020
The smell of fire hangs in the air in Imizamo Yethu
Bantu Dabula’s home has been burnt down three times
Text by James Stent. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 10 September 2020
Family’s RDP home sold without their knowledge
Headman who charged R1,500 fee for sale condemned by chief and provincial authority
News | 9 September 2020
Relocation of 1,500 Dunoon families postponed until at least next year
Neighbouring business owners object to relocation, say there are better alternatives
Brief | 8 September 2020
Online petition on evicting domestic abusers got court ruling wrong
Judges emphasise that procedural fairness must be upheld
Law | 4 September 2020
“I don’t want my daughters to end up like me” says sugarcane worker
Nobuhle Mkhize with her five daughters and six grandchildren face the poverty trap
News | 4 September 2020
Illegal occupations affect us all, says Mayco member
Over 300 land occupations in the Cape Town metro since January
By Malusi Booi
Right to reply | 3 September 2020