Housing
Court dismisses Observatory occupants’ application against City of Cape Town
A date for the final hearing on the eviction case is yet to be determined
By Liezl Human
Brief | 6 July 2021
Sanitation worse than ever after floods hit informal settlement
Residents of Ethembeni in Khayelitsha say they urgently need ten to 15 chemical toilets
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 5 July 2021
Where are our ward councillors? ask flood victims
Shacks flooded by heavy rains in Khayelitsha
By Vincent Lali
News | 2 July 2021
Homes flooded after Diep River bursts its banks
Community-built Dunoon barrier fails to save people from winter floods
Brief | 2 July 2021
Video: Horrific footage of flooded Cape Town shacks
A terrible rainstorm in Cape Town has flooded shacks in Kraaifontein.
Video | 1 July 2021
Kraaifontein shack dwellers flooded out of their homes
City says most flooded areas “are situated on land that is not suitable for habitation”
Ashraf Hendricks
Photo Essay | 1 July 2021
Desperate Zimbabweans living on the streets of Musina say municipality makes their hard lives worse
“I thought I had grabbed a way of living … but I now live by scavenging from bins”
News | 1 July 2021
Domestic worker’s decade long struggle to make her RDP house liveable
Six months after moving in, Nokwayintombi Pateni’s home has still not been electrified
By Vincent Lali
News | 1 July 2021
Siqalo residents brave the Cape floods again
Home to about 2,000 people, the informal settlement experiences flooding almost every winter
Photo Essay | 30 June 2021