Housing

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Pensioner who was allocated an RDP house 15 years ago still lives in a mud hut

Free State Department of Human Settlements has promised to help the 75-year-old from Naledi village in Qwaqwa get a house

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News | 11 April 2025

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Developer of R300m Stellenbosch housing estate fights back

Botmaskop Fynbos Estate says a court interdict stopping construction will be “catastrophic”

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News | 11 April 2025

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Department of Public Works bungles Darling Street eviction application

State Attorney did not communicate with residents and failed to enrol the case properly

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News | 10 April 2025

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Landmark judgment on evictions in Johannesburg

City ordered to pay compensation to owner of “hijacked” building because of delay in providing alternative accommodation to residents

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Law | 10 April 2025

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Western Cape promises progress on inner-city housing projects

Several social housing projects in Cape Town will go to tender this year

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News | 9 April 2025

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Cape Town families say City has ‘abandoned’ them

Municipality has no immediate plans to move families living at the Masonwabe temporary relocation area in Gugulethu

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News | 9 April 2025

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Former MPs refuse to leave their subsidised housing in parliamentary villages

State Attorney to take steps to evict them

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News | 3 April 2025

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Legal battle to remove occupiers from land in Ballito

KwaDukuza Municipality says the land is earmarked for a school and clinic, but occupiers say they can’t move away from job opportunities

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News | 3 April 2025

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R750-million budget change hits housing developments in three provinces

Western Cape, Gauteng and Free State are challenging national government’s decision to cut their funds and reallocate them

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News | 2 April 2025