Housing
Evicted waste pickers win in court
Company must rebuild homes of the “Airfield Community” on land near Waterkloof base
Law | 3 March 2023
Cape Town is removing homeless people from the street. This is what the City is offering instead
Mayor promises R230-million over the next three years to help homeless residents. But will there be enough space?
News | 2 March 2023
Rubber bullets fired as over 2,000 people evicted from Nigel housing occupation
Lawyers for the occupiers have subsequently secured a stay of the eviction order in the Gauteng High Court
News | 28 February 2023
Coffee Bay Flood: Man tells how he survived by grabbing tree
Eight confirmed dead. Search for two missing people continues.
News | 24 February 2023
Komani flood victims spend the night on the roofs of their shacks
Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality says 227 emergency housing units will be erected within two weeks.
News | 22 February 2023
Cape Town is moving people off the streets. We asked homeless residents what they thought
“We are also part of the community,” says Nathan Ludick, who lives in Virginia Avenue Park
Photo Essay | 22 February 2023
Supreme Court of Appeal reserves judgment in Tafelberg matter
“At the heart of the matter is the government’s obligations to promote equitable access to land and to redress spatial apartheid” says housing activist
Law | 20 February 2023
Disabled immigrants evicted from Joburg building by Operation Dudula
“Everything was lost during the eviction. Now I sleep with my children in a room with many others” says mother
News | 16 February 2023
“The clothes we are wearing is all we have left,” says flood victim
About 60 people in Diepsloot are homeless following flash flooding on Tuesday night
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 16 February 2023