Housing
Students sleep on the floor at CPUT amid housing funding blunder
The university says its own accredited and leased residences have already reached full capacity
News | 12 February 2024
Huge Gugulethu housing project dead in the water
Successive failure of construction companies leaves families waiting
News | 8 February 2024
Court battle looms over Observatory pavement occupation
The City wants to move the occupiers to Delft South but they say that’s too far away
News | 2 February 2024
Battle in Khayelitsha over occupied land
The Khayelitsha Community Trust plans to build a private hospital displacing informal settlement formed during Covid
By Vincent Lali
News | 2 February 2024
Tenants say they’ve been abandoned in Benoni’s crumbling apartheid-era municipal flats
80-year-old Sarah Govender has lived in the Actonville flats since the 1980s
News | 2 February 2024
Nine years later, here is how Wolwerivier is doing
Residents of the City’s emergency housing development face unemployment, extreme heat, and overcrowding. But “we have achieved a lot” says a community member
Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 1 February 2024
Housing project for 500 Dunoon families put on hold
Western Cape government revising its plan and budget
News | 31 January 2024
Laundry offers free showers to homeless people
LaundReCycle is energy and water self-sufficient. It has been running since 2021 at the Streetscapes Urban Farm.
Brief | 30 January 2024
Shack dwellers build makeshift speed bumps on ‘deadly’ road
At least two people died and three shacks were destroyed in a taxi accident on Old Faure Road near Mfuleni on Friday
By Vincent Lali
News | 29 January 2024