Housing
Addo shut down by protests
Residents of one of the area’s oldest informal settlements want houses, electricity, tap water, toilets and passable roads
Brief | 28 February 2020
Families demand speed bumps after car crashes into house
Pietermaritzburg road has been the scene of many accidents
Brief | 28 February 2020
Charges against Women on Farms director withdrawn
Colette Solomon was arrested during an anti-eviction protest
News | 27 February 2020
Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement
Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn
Brief | 26 February 2020
Paraplegic man dreams of having a house
Lwando Sigaqa lives in a shack in Taiwan informal settlement
News | 26 February 2020
Khayelitsha shack dwellers block busy road
Protesters want serviced sites but City of Cape Town says shacks were illegally erected on its land
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 25 February 2020
Couple dies in shack fire in Kraaifontein
Wallacedene shack dwellers say they had no water to extinguish the blaze
By Vincent Lali
News | 25 February 2020
Abahlali marches in support of land expropriation
“We want government to give us title deeds for the land that we are already occupying”
News | 24 February 2020
Violent protests in PE over failure to relocate shack dwellers
“The residents have been flooded with empty promises by human settlements officials” says ward councillor
News | 21 February 2020