Housing

Why do informal settlements get cluttered with litter?

UCT survey of Island in Khayelitsha provides some answers

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Science | 29 June 2018

Blikkiesdorp residents frustrated by housing delays

City councillor estimates new RDP homes will be completed in two years

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Photo Essay | 29 June 2018

Rubber bullets fired at EFF-led Brakpan land occupiers

300 shacks demolished but occupiers say they are not leaving

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News | 27 June 2018

Protesters accuse ANC of job favouritism and shut down construction site

Residents of KwaNobuhle demand repairs to their RDP homes

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Brief | 27 June 2018

Can subsidised rentals help solve the housing crisis?

It’s an idea whose time has come but it is not a cure-all

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GroundView | 27 June 2018

De Lille and protesters in tense stand-off

Vrygrond residents furious that the mayor addressed media before them, while she accused the community’s leadership of rejecting all the City’s proposals

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News | 26 June 2018

Officials don’t understand how much I struggle to survive, says land occupier

Shacks demolished on state-owned land in Khayelitsha

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News | 26 June 2018

Battle for Bo-Kaap’s future

Residents are protesting against gentrification but a heritage consultant is sceptical of “nostalgia of an imagined past”

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Feature | 26 June 2018

“This area is used as a dumpsite” says Mandela Park resident

Residents accuse the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of neglecting their informal settlement. They believe politicians only visit the area to garner votes.

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News | 25 June 2018

EFF runs land occupation in Brakpan

But the municipality, which owns the land, wants to develop it for housing

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News | 22 June 2018

Occupiers take over Old Mutual property

Company says the flats and surrounding land were earmarked for a low-cost housing project

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News | 22 June 2018

Shacks flooded after week of Cape rains

Dam levels are rising and Day Zero in 2019 is unlikely, but for hundreds of thousands of people, the rains bring hardship

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Photo Essay | 22 June 2018

Chaos in Uitenhage as angry residents demand housing repairs

Protestors claim ward councillor only serves ANC members

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Brief | 21 June 2018

Community confused why they don’t have electricity while their neighbours do

In the meanwhile, residents of RR Section in Khayelitsha use illegal connections

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News | 21 June 2018

Land occupiers say they won’t move from Ramaphosa Square

Ward councillor says land they’ve occupied was meant for development

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News | 21 June 2018

Western Cape government identifies seven possible housing sites

Parkwood community leaders made to promise that sites won’t be occupied before development

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News | 20 June 2018