Housing
Masiphumelele struggles to rebuild after devastating fire
About 1,800 people were left homeless in the second fire to rip through the township in less than a month
News | 22 November 2022
Innovative double-storey housing project for Khayelitsha
Former shack dwellers move into new model houses
News | 21 November 2022
Stopping people from letting their cattle graze amounts to eviction, says judge
Land Claims Court says the Constitution requires that ESTA be given a “generous interpretation”
Law | 21 November 2022
25,000 people live in Tshwane’s squalid apartheid hostels
Broken windows, filthy and broken toilets, terrible stink: the hostels are crumbling and there’s no money to fix them
By Chris Gilili
News | 16 November 2022
Woodstock residents rattled by police raid
The City of Cape Town says Cissie Gool House has been “hijacked” and that Reclaim the City has lost control
By Daniel Steyn
News | 16 November 2022
What happened to Cape Town’s promised affordable housing policy?
Activists launch report on urgent need for “inclusive” housing policy
News | 14 November 2022
“We begged them not to take our belongings”
Homeless community removed from Gqeberha’s Grahamstown Bridge
Brief | 11 November 2022
Magistrate accused of bias in eviction case
Venice Burgins had made her views on Communicare clear in social media posts. Yet she failed to recuse herself from a case involving the social housing company.
By James Stent
News | 9 November 2022
“We just ran for safety,” says fire victim
Nompumelelo Maqhulumane is among nearly 160 left homeless by a fire in Buffalo City on Sunday
Brief | 8 November 2022