If the City of Cape Town can demolish shacks during the lockdown, what is stopping us from evicting tenants? asks backyarder’s landlord
Brief | 3 June 2020
“We know that if we are not here, our house will be burnt down”
By Fred Kockott and Matthew Hattingh
Feature | 3 June 2020
After their shacks were demolished during the lockdown, families have been left in dire straits and at the mercy of criminals
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 30 April 2020
“We have every right to the land and even have a court interdict protecting us from demolitions” says resident
News | 23 April 2020
“We don’t want any more delays,” says Minister Sisulu
News | 22 April 2020
Empolweni residents whose shacks were demolished during the lockdown can return to the land and rebuild
By James Stent
Brief | 17 April 2020
Residents say they are unable to rebuild their shacks and unable to return to their former backyards
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 April 2020
“Covid-19 does not mean that there must be a holiday in respecting the laws of the country” says Durban mayor
By Tania Broughton and Nokulunga Majola
News | 8 April 2020
AmaZizi and Prudhoe communities dispute colonial and apartheid history
Law | 2 April 2020
Angered community leader responds by selling sites for just R1
News | 27 March 2020
For years, law firm Sinama and Associates pursued a land claim with “no shred of evidence”, ending in a loss for the claimants
Law | 18 March 2020
Residents of two informal settlements and a backyarder group are at each other’s throats over allocation of serviced sites
News | 4 March 2020
“We will come back to build our shacks here”
Brief | 29 February 2020
Protesters want serviced sites but City of Cape Town says shacks were illegally erected on its land
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 25 February 2020
“We want government to give us title deeds for the land that we are already occupying”
News | 24 February 2020