NEWS
10 April 2020
City aims to keep 2,000 people at Strandfontein site
Text by James Stent. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
BRIEF
8 April 2020
Limpopo moves people living on the streets into shelters
By Bernard Chiguvare
“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
7 April 2020
Street people claim they are not being fed and they were deceived about conditions
By Lucas Nowicki and James Stent
Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League slams demolitions
By Nokulunga Majola
6 April 2020
Court document shows that house was supposed to be “a standard two bedroom brick and mortar structure with indoor sanitation facilities”
By Liezl Human
Over 2,000 homeless people placed in shelters in Durban
3 April 2020
Abahlali BaseMjondolo accuse eThekwini Municipality of using the lockdown to “wage a war” against the movement
2 April 2020
“Our rubbish has not been collected for four weeks. But the truck suddenly comes at the same time as the mayor today.”
By Tania Broughton
1 April 2020
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality says occupiers refused offer for alternative housing
By Kimberly Mutandiro
30 March 2020
All evictions suspended by government
By Athalie Crawford and Nompendulo Ngubane
Residents still living in shacks are billed for houses they have never seen
National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality
By Joseph Chirume
27 March 2020
“No one has talked to us about the virus. We don’t know what it can do to us. All we know is that you must wash your hands.”
By Lucas Nowicki
Angered community leader responds by selling sites for just R1
FEATURE
26 March 2020
City and Province’s housing demand drive adds 10,000 more to the database
By Mary-Anne Gontsana
