Housing
Week of housing protests at Sir Lowry’s Pass
Residents say their area is neglected and their councillor ignores them
News | 26 March 2019
Residents burn down Alra Park police station
Claims of race discrimination in housing allocation
News | 25 March 2019
Human Rights Day protesters demand better housing
Activist calls for investigation into EThekwini Municipality officials, while in Cape Town Reclaim the City occupied a golf course
By Musa Binda and GroundUp Staff
News | 21 March 2019
Farm workers march to Parliament demanding moratorium on evictions
Call for President Cyril Ramaphosa to keep promise he made in 2014
Brief | 20 March 2019
Cape Flats residents protest for houses
Protesters demanded to see MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and then burnt tyres when he did not address them
News | 20 March 2019
Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers
City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report
News | 20 March 2019
Cape Town women’s group pools money to build houses
It’s a stokvel with a difference
Brief | 19 March 2019
Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive
“The City will never help us until we protest.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 March 2019
Masiphumelele shack dwellers threaten to occupy land if City doesn’t give dates for new houses
Plato blames De Lille for making promises to community. De Lille says: “He’s talking nonsense.”
By Ella Ndongeni and GroundUp Staff
News | 18 March 2019