Housing

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Buy our land - Siqalo residents tell City

Residents from the informal settlement say landowners are willing to sell

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News | 12 May 2016

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Government tenants march to human settlements MEC

Tenants from a number of areas fear removals

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News | 11 May 2016

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Riot in Grabouw over housing

Traffic department destroyed and schools closed

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Photo Essay | 11 May 2016

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Councillor blamed for East London housing protest

Promised housing development never happened

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News | 9 May 2016

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Court settlement reached in Tafelberg case

But dispute over future of Sea Point property 'is by no means concluded'

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News | 5 May 2016

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Some Motherwell residents boycott Freedom Day celebrations

Shack and backyard dwellers choose rather to protest over housing

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News | 28 April 2016

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Blikkiesdorp residents demand to know where they’re to be moved

Protesters march to Civic Centre

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News | 26 April 2016

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Sewage leaks from Langa’s apartment blocks

Hundreds of people are living in abject conditions in City-maintained flats

Text by Naib Mian. Photos by Masixole Feni.

News | 26 April 2016

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“I want them to feel my love before I die”

Khayelitsha mother longs to bring her disabled daughters home

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News | 26 April 2016

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Where do the children play? Lavender Hill’s derelict facilities

Residents call for upgrades to help end gangsterism

Text by Barbara Maregele. Photos by Naib Main.

Feature | 21 April 2016

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Timeline of protest and violence in Dunoon

Concerns over housing have morphed into looting of immigrant owned shops

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News | 20 April 2016

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Thousands march against ANC ward councillor

Thandi Ndlovu “is like a statue - just there and doing nothing”, says protester

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News | 19 April 2016

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Delft residents march for electricity

Provincial official says township's Tsunami informal settlement will be improved

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News | 18 April 2016

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Tension over rent at pioneering housing complex

Some residents say Steen Villa has become too middle-class

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News | 18 April 2016

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We’re trying to improve Observatory

A response to Koketso Moeti

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Opinion | 18 April 2016

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Tafelberg site could house 200 families at rents from R700 a month

2012 study laid out plan for social housing

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News | 18 April 2016