Housing

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City removes people occupying Gugulethu land

Eviction takes place despite upcoming meeting between mayor and occupiers

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Brief | 6 March 2018

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

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Ramaphosa’s “most important people”

GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament

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News | 27 February 2018

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Church removed for shacks

Gugulethu land occupation continued over the weekend

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Brief | 26 February 2018

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Foreshore development was one of the reasons for De Lille fallout

Plans pushed through by senior official, claims mayor’s executive director

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News | 26 February 2018