Housing
Couple living with disability left homeless by fire
Yoliswa Maneli and Andisile January want to be allocated one of the many unoccupied houses in the area
Brief | 24 August 2021
How Walter the storyteller escaped homelessness
Like many others he lost his home during lockdown and lived rough
By James Stent
Feature | 24 August 2021
Delft families waiting for years to have electricity restored
Power outage blamed on illegal connections at Tsunami informal settlement
By Vincent Lali
News | 23 August 2021
Activists impatient with long wait for promised social housing
City of Cape Town says national government slow to release “well-located” land for affordable housing
News | 12 August 2021
State refused to help immigrant fire victims, so this organisation stepped up
Immigrants who lost their shacks in a fire in Briardene last month were refused building materials by the state
Brief | 12 August 2021
Draft Cape Town by-law could see land occupiers fined or imprisoned for up to two years, fear housing activists
Treating occupiers as criminals fails to recognise that the vast majority of people are forced to take land, says Ndifuna Ukwazi
News | 11 August 2021
“We don’t want handouts. We want land”
Western Cape farm workers picket outside parliament
By Liezl Human
Brief | 11 August 2021
Dunoon man electrocuted trying to put out the shack fire that killed another man
Residents say electrocuted man helped them fight for the land they are living on
Brief | 10 August 2021
Families living along Cape Town railway line to be resettled
Court rules that the land occupiers must get basic services on new land
News | 6 August 2021