“Our parents lived in this poverty, we are living in this poverty, and now our children are living in this poverty”
Text by Mary-Anne Gontsana. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 14 June 2024
Families living in Lindokuhle Mnguni informal settlement in Johannesburg say they’re being harassed by police and AmaPanyaza
News | 11 June 2024
Judgment reserved in Belhar occupation case
By Matthew Hirsch and GroundUp Staff
Law | 10 June 2024
Victims of 2022 floods are still living in a “transit camp”
News | 10 June 2024
Families relocated to make way for housing project have been living in a poorly serviced transit camp
News | 7 June 2024
People are being housed in three large tents
Brief | 6 June 2024
Give us houses, Ekurhuleni municipality told
News | 4 June 2024
They claim they should be allowed to move into the houses. But the municipality says they’re not the rightful beneficiaries.
Brief | 1 June 2024
Madiba Park families still in limbo five years after protests
News | 30 May 2024
Some have lived in “Oya Town” near Maitland Station for eight years
Photo Essay | 28 May 2024
“We have been patient for a long time” says protest leader
Brief | 24 May 2024
Protesters and City in dispute over housing project
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 24 May 2024
The occupiers are mostly backyarders and tenants who say they could no longer afford to pay rent or buy a house. They have been clearing the open field for a week now.
News | 24 May 2024
They are angry that refugees living in a tent on the same land have toilets and water, but they do not
Brief | 22 May 2024
New housing development will not only be for the backyarders, says the City
News | 22 May 2024
After 13 years in a “transit camp”, Ntuzuma flood victims are afraid they’ll die there
News | 22 May 2024