Housing

Philippi land occupiers threaten to defy court order

“I have nowhere to go. If they destroy our shacks then I would go and live in the streets with my wife and two children.”

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News | 12 April 2018

Thembelihle on edge ahead of release of dolomite report

Residents want to know: will JHB municipality relocate or develop the informal settlement

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News | 12 April 2018

Township homeowners complain about land occupiers

They “are living in comfort because they have houses of their own, while we don’t have” responds occupier

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News | 11 April 2018

Hermanus residents come out in support of arrested protesters

Scores in court, charged with public violence

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News | 11 April 2018

Neighbours help land occupiers living in “unbearable conditions”

Mfuleni backyarders stay in large rickety shack

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News | 9 April 2018

PE residents homeless because of poorly built RDP houses

People have been living for a decade in temporary structures next to their waterlogged houses

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News | 9 April 2018

Showdown in court over Ceres evictions

Municipality wants to evict 27 people who have occupied the Bella Vista 309 Housing Project

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News | 5 April 2018

Relocated Khayelitsha residents want the basic services they were promised

Residents say ward councillor Andile Lili said they would get electricity, taps and toilets

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News | 5 April 2018

Mfuleni land occupiers won’t give up

“Setting up again is a form of resistance” says woman whose shack has been demolished

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Photo Essay | 3 April 2018