Housing
Truck stopped at gunpoint then set alight in Dunoon
Six people arrested as City continues demolishing shacks
Brief | 17 April 2018
City halted housing project because of violence
“No more fight left” says 62-year-old woman after waiting 28 years for a house
News | 17 April 2018
Khayelitsha land occupiers describe their desperation
About 230 out of an initial 500 people remain, some having had their shacks demolished three times, and yet new land occupiers keep arriving
By Vincent Lali
News | 16 April 2018
Court rules that banks can sell your house for next to nothing
Case involved house valued at R470,000 sold for R40,000 by Standard Bank
Law | 16 April 2018
Seven Hermanus protesters released on bail
Charges have been dropped against six of the 69 arrested so far
Brief | 13 April 2018
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.”
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
By Zoë Postman
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
News | 11 April 2018
Hermanus residents come out in support of arrested protesters
Scores in court, charged with public violence
By Annie Cebulski and Eryn Scannell
News | 11 April 2018