Housing
Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack
Oyama Meje and two adults died on Sunday night in Phola Park informal settlement fire
News | 10 July 2023
Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest
SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha
By Vincent Lali
News | 6 July 2023
Dunoon residents battle blaze from their shack roofs
Fire destroys 50 homes, leaving families in the biting cold
Brief | 6 July 2023
KwaZulu-Natal tornado victims hoping for rapid help
Some Inanda families lost all their possessions and their homes
Brief | 5 July 2023
Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer
Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead
News | 5 July 2023
City of Tshwane probes illegal suburb
Leeuwfontein has been developed without subdivision or approval by local authorities. Now residents want services
News | 5 July 2023
Woman allocated an RDP house years ago still lives in a shack
Bomkazi Sitela’s RDP house in Mandela Park was illegally occupied
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 29 June 2023
25-year-old informal settlement still lacks basic services
GPO residents voted ANC because they believed their relocation would be delayed if they didn’t, says resident Thozama Nyathela. “We were only being fed empty promises.”
Brief | 29 June 2023
Dozens of homes destroyed by tornado in Inanda
Human Settlements Minister promises that professional engineers will properly assess the damaged homes
News | 28 June 2023