Housing

Dire need for housing is South Africa’s biggest challenge

We are on track to exceed our targets for the delivery of houses in Cape Town for the current financial year

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Opinion | 8 March 2018

Riot in Mfuleni follows shack removals

“I want to have my own place and stand on my own two feet because I’m an adult”

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News | 8 March 2018

Mother tells of her child’s death in shack fire

Family unable to afford funeral for nine-year-old

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News | 8 March 2018

Why we woke up Brett Herron at 5am with koesiesters

People evicted from their homes cannot be dumped in Blikkiesdorp or Wolwerivier

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Opinion | 7 March 2018

City removes people occupying Gugulethu land

Eviction takes place despite upcoming meeting between mayor and occupiers

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Brief | 6 March 2018

Housing picket outside Brett Herron’s home

Herron says Wolwerivier is all the City can offer for now

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News | 6 March 2018

Gugulethu occupiers call for City to buy land for them

“If the City builds double-storey flats here, about 700 homeless residents can get a place to stay”

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News | 5 March 2018

City says no money to house evictees in Woodstock

Albert Road residents refuse to move to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier

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Brief | 1 March 2018

“Chocolate City”, where houses melt in the rain

Hundreds have lived in mud homes for decades in Dambuza

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Brief | 1 March 2018