Housing

Housing activists ask court to uphold right to protest

Reclaim the City contests interdict against occupation of property in centre of Cape Town

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Brief | 4 June 2019

Commission told about “lawlessness” in Alexandra

City of Johannesburg battles to enforce bylaws, says COGTA head

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News | 4 June 2019

Vrygrond demolitions: Plato promises to take action

Mayor pledges to return to community with housing plans

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News | 3 June 2019

Police shoot at Mfuleni protesters

Dispute over allocation of units in new housing development

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Brief | 31 May 2019

Housing activists interrupt council meeting

Protesters demand outcome of investigation into sale of prime City-owned land to GrowthPoint

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Brief | 30 May 2019

How expropriation without compensation works in Alexandra

A xenophobic mob is kicking people out of their homes

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Feature | 30 May 2019

Residents want City to speed up housing plans in Strand

Evicted land occupiers have been staying in community halls, which means many social grant recipients have had to spend much more money on transport to get their grants at alternative venues

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Brief | 29 May 2019

Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a tree for almost a year

“This municipal bin is our soup kitchen”

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News | 27 May 2019

Law enforcement moves against Vrygrond land occupiers

Residents claim they were not shown court order before their shacks were demolished

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Brief | 25 May 2019

Farm workers march to Constitutional Court over land and working conditions

“We want to have our own piece of land so that we can do something for ourselves like growing gardens or sheep farming”

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News | 24 May 2019

Invite me for coffee, Winde tells marchers

Marikana residents demand land

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News | 23 May 2019

Cape Town’s hostels to be upgraded

Built to accommodate black working men under apartheid, many are in terrible condition

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Brief | 23 May 2019

Dunoon land occupiers club together to pay for lawyer

Evicted eight times from private land

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News | 22 May 2019

Family killed by fire in RDP house

Twayisa Myathaza and her three children were the victims of a faulty electricity box, say witnesses

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News | 21 May 2019

Evicted Durban residents say City had no court order

Dozens left homeless after shacks demolished on Sunday

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News | 21 May 2019