Housing

Shelters for homeless families a rarity

The Somerset West Family Shelter is one of few in the country

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News | 19 April 2024

Ekurhuleni shack dwellers’ hopes of getting flush toilets dashed

City of Ekurhuleni says five families can safely share a chemical toilet

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News | 18 April 2024

No shelter for homeless dog owners

Except perhaps for a farm in the Karoo

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Photo Essay | 15 April 2024

Housing activists lose Tafelberg case

The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled the sale of the site for private development was lawful

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Law | 12 April 2024

Former street kid steps onto the global surfing stage

Capetonian Paul Sampson has battled seemingly insurmountable odds to compete with the best in the world

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News | 11 April 2024

Thousands left homeless by storms and fires in the Cape

Heavy rains, high winds and fires devastate homes in past few days

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Photo Essay | 8 April 2024

100 shacks demolished by City of Joburg on rainy weekend

Red Ants tore down land occupiers’ homes in Glen Austin, Midrand, on Friday and Sunday

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Brief | 8 April 2024

Fierce winds send Khayelitsha shacks flying

Chemical toilets toppled, roofs blown off

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Photo Essay | 8 April 2024

Protesters block busy Vereeniging road to complain about stalled housing project

Kanana Park residents from Thulamntwana township brought traffic to a standstill on Monday

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Brief | 26 March 2024

Hundreds of people stake out plots for houses on empty land in Nelson Mandela Bay

Municipality says it will move against them

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News | 20 March 2024

Housing activists frustrated by President Ramaphosa’s six-month silence on public land act

They have been demanding that government use the State Land Disposal Act of 1961 to rapidly free up land for housing

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Brief | 18 March 2024

Thousands of people still living on Cape Town’s Central Line

This is in addition to the hundreds of families in shacks who were relocated from the railway line in Philippi in December

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News | 14 March 2024

Joburg mayor snubs Diepkloof Hostel to deal with water crisis

People living in crumbling homes accuse the mayor of disrespecting them

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News | 13 March 2024

Women’s hostel two-week blackout blamed on strike in eThekwini

Five women from Thokoza Hostel were arrested on Tuesday after protesting to get the electricity restored

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Brief | 13 March 2024

Blikkiesdorp community protest after years of waiting for houses

They say their structures are falling apart and the area has become unliveable

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Brief | 8 March 2024

In photos: Cape Town’s apartheid-era flats

More than R1.2-billion has been allocated over the next three years to maintain these blocks

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Photo Essay | 8 March 2024