Housing
Cape Town shack dwellers march for RDP houses
“As long as each family has a tap, a toilet, and a box of electricity, we will be happy.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 March 2019
Life in Woodstock Hospital
An abandoned state-owned property has become home to over 700 people
Photo Essay | 15 March 2019
Ten eviction attempts but land occupiers rebuild in Tembisa
“I was in shock. I didn’t expect them to be so brutal”
By Zoë Postman
News | 15 March 2019
SANDF refuses to re-accommodate immigrants it evicted in Marievale
“They want to break my family apart,” says evictee
News | 14 March 2019
Traditional affairs office burnt down in KZN
“Barbaric act” believed to be by land occupiers angry over government crackdown, says MEC
By Musa Binda
Brief | 14 March 2019
New Sea Point skyscraper to include affordable housing
Planning tribunal approves new apartment block
Brief | 13 March 2019
JHB waste pickers face routine harassment
“A lot of people don’t appreciate what we are doing for them”
Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.
Feature | 12 March 2019
Residents won’t let councillor return until their RDP houses are repaired
Office of Uitenhage ward 45 councillor shut since July 2018
News | 11 March 2019
Cato Crest residents block roads after shack demolitions
Abahlali baseMjondolo leader says protesters were not their members
By Musa Binda
Brief | 7 March 2019