Housing
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
Khayelitsha residents fed up with years of delays in housing project
Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 27 June 2023
Under water for two weeks: Cape Town’s Covid informal settlement
Residents fear disease could break out from the human waste in the water
News | 26 June 2023
Here people collect coal dust to cook and stay warm
“What is the use of being climate conscious because this duff coal is like gold to us”
News | 26 June 2023
Taps not tankers say land occupiers in Cape Town
“We are wary of using water from the tankers because of what happened in Hammanskraal”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 23 June 2023