Housing
Gugulethu group stop housing project
Disgruntled beneficiaries say houses being built at Erf 8448 “are not what we were shown more than 15 years ago”
Brief | 3 August 2020
Covid Village occupiers live in limbo
Minister Sisulu to discuss N2 occupation with Cabinet, says Mbulelo Ncedana
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 3 August 2020
Twenty arrested after shops of foreign nationals looted and torched
Human rights groups have criticised government’s inaction to deal with xenophobic attacks
News | 31 July 2020
PE shack dwellers shut down neighbourhood
“We want to get the attention of this municipality. But if officials don’t address us we will stop all the projects in this ward.”
News | 30 July 2020
Durban is “waging war” on the poor during a pandemic, says shack dweller movement
Homes demolished in Cato Manor
News | 29 July 2020
Dozens of brick and mortar homes built by occupiers demolished on Monday
Public Works claims it only demolished newly built and incomplete homes
Brief | 29 July 2020
Family of 13 living in a shack have “tried everything” but “there are just no jobs”
“I am trying my best to get them a house or a decent place to live in,” says ward councillor
Brief | 29 July 2020
Municipality hands over RDP houses without water, toilets or electricity
Beneficiaries of the housing project say they’ve been battling since they moved in four years ago
News | 28 July 2020
How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations
Here are seven proposals
By Adi Kumar
Opinion | 27 July 2020