Housing

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Candidate for ward council comes to rescue of fire victims

Residents accuse current councillor of neglecting them

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News | 14 July 2016

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Residents of Qunu informal settlement protest on margin of ANC rally

“I have seven years of moving around Port Elizabeth as a squatter"

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News | 13 July 2016

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Councillor gets free water, but residents have to pay her husband

Chris Hani residents up in arms over water

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News | 13 July 2016

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Uncertain future for residents of old stables in Woodstock

Die Stalle to be developed as social housing

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News | 13 July 2016

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Families stuck in shacks because of government squabble

Housing project halted while municipality and contractor differ over invoice

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Brief | 11 July 2016

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A year of living dangerously on the streets of Durban

"I need a hug and the words of a father”

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News | 8 July 2016

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Tension between those with and without electricity in Mdantsane

Illegal connections of shack-dwellers cause power outages for neighbours

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News | 6 July 2016

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Plastic View devastated by fire

Hundreds homeless and five dead in informal settlement east of Pretoria

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Photo Essay | 4 July 2016

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City promises first affordable housing in CBD since 1994

Households earning between R3,500 and R15,000 per month will qualify

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Brief | 30 June 2016

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Residents urge De Lille to stop 19-storey Bo-Kaap building

Mayor will have final say on giant development

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News | 29 June 2016

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Living on the streets of central Cape Town

Treat us with respect, say homeless people

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Photo Essay | 24 June 2016

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Family in mud house waiting 14 years

“Is this the life of a full time voter?”

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News | 23 June 2016

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Woodstock woman faces eviction from home of 75 years

Property developer wants tenants out by August

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News | 22 June 2016

Artist's impression of a future city

Eskom slams Province and City on Wescape

Plan to amend City’s urban edge was “irrational”

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News | 22 June 2016

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Masiphumelele kept in the dark

City says it's not safe to repair streetlights

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News | 21 June 2016

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Bogged down in Never Never land

Winter rains make life hard for Philippi shackdwellers

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Photo Essay | 21 June 2016