Keywords: Singabalapha Content: Articles Page: 1 of 1 Items: 8
2 March 2022 | ARTICLE
By Mary-Anne Gontsana
...Singabalapha”- ‘We belong here’ - informal settlement. They originally occupied the Arcadia House old age home, owned by the Cape Peninsula Organisation for the Aged (CPOA) in May 2020. They were evic...
15 October 2021 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...Singabalapha, Housing Assembly, Movement for Care, Rehoming Collective, and Ndifuna Ukwazi. The march followed a raid earlier on Friday of the old Woodstock Hospital, which has been occupied for sever...
8 October 2020 | ARTICLE
By Tania Broughton
...Singabalapha community without due process. Acting Judge Selwyn Hockey said the City had used bylaws as a “quick fix” to try to evict the occupiers. A “year from hell” for the residents of Singabala...
21 May 2020 | ARTICLE
By Ashraf Hendricks
...Singabalapha. At about midnight on Wednesday Judge Robert Henney granted the interdict. The order prevents the City from interfering with or confiscating the property of the occupiers, or harassing or...
20 May 2020 | ARTICLE
By Ashraf Hendricks
...Singabalapha by the occupiers, is home to over 40 people. Barbara Vusa, Singabalapha resident and community leader, said that Law Enforcement officers had arrived before sunrise, making them sign fine...
15 October 2019 | ARTICLE
By Aisha Abdool Karim
...Singabalapha organisers. “We can’t be going from shack to shack, from stone to stone.” The group wore Singabalapha T-shirts with the slogan “Forcefully taken shall be forcefully returned”. They began ...
8 October 2019 | ARTICLE
By Aisha Abdool Karim
The strip of grass outside Arcadia Place is lined with mattresses and blankets and an array of people’s belongings, clothing and food. A group of occupiers, called Singabalapha or “we belong here”, ar...
1 October 2019 | ARTICLE
By Moira Levy and Ashraf Hendricks
A large group of backyarders and shack-dwellers from different Cape Town townships, who call themselves Singabalapha or “we belong here”, have occupied a vacant property that belongs to the Cape Penin...