Housing
Cape Town garden changes lives for homeless people
“You have to have an ID, otherwise it is as if you don’t exist”
By Liezl Human
News | 3 February 2020
Uitenhage protesters march on memorial service
Shackdwellers say promises of electricity have not been kept
News | 29 January 2020
Families claim they were duped into paying R50 to get a house
But Howard Soetwater of United Homeless People’s Association says it needs money to organise
News | 28 January 2020
Rondebosch golf club: City of Cape Town accused of subsidising the wealthy elite
But City says renewal of lease is justified
News | 23 January 2020
Children use electricity pylon as jungle gym
Residents of PE township where four children died after playing on rubbish dump call for recreational facilities
Brief | 22 January 2020
We have become mosquito food, say families living along filthy canal
Part of Gugulethu canal clogged with rubbish after employment dispute
News | 22 January 2020
City of Cape Town refuses to say how many shacks were demolished at the weekend
Zweledinga informal settlement in Khayelitsha destroyed
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 January 2020
Three months after they move in, family’s RDP house burns down
Fire in Wallacedene destroys 85 homes
Brief | 20 January 2020
Residents look forward to government officials travelling on potholed road and “feeling their pain”
Willowfontein residents fed up with broken promises
News | 17 January 2020