Housing

Partially blind woman faces eviction

The owner of the shack Siphiwe Mdluli rents wants to move back in

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News | 4 August 2020

Gugulethu residents at wits end with company that built their flood prone houses

Cape Town Community Housing Company hits back: “If you bought something, you own it and you are responsible for it”

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News | 3 August 2020

Gugulethu group stop housing project

Disgruntled beneficiaries say houses being built at Erf 8448 “are not what we were shown more than 15 years ago”

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Brief | 3 August 2020

Covid Village occupiers live in limbo

Minister Sisulu to discuss N2 occupation with Cabinet, says Mbulelo Ncedana

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Brief | 3 August 2020

Twenty arrested after shops of foreign nationals looted and torched

Human rights groups have criticised government’s inaction to deal with xenophobic attacks

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News | 31 July 2020

PE shack dwellers shut down neighbourhood

“We want to get the attention of this municipality. But if officials don’t address us we will stop all the projects in this ward.”

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News | 30 July 2020

Dozens of brick and mortar homes built by occupiers demolished on Monday

Public Works claims it only demolished newly built and incomplete homes

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Family of 13 living in a shack have “tried everything” but “there are just no jobs”

“I am trying my best to get them a house or a decent place to live in,” says ward councillor

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Brief | 29 July 2020

Municipality hands over RDP houses without water, toilets or electricity

Beneficiaries of the housing project say they’ve been battling since they moved in four years ago

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News | 28 July 2020

How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations

Here are seven proposals

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Opinion | 27 July 2020

Luyolo land claimants to wait another three years for housing project

“For years people showed us plans for housing then disappeared without anything being done. Many of us had lost hope”

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News | 27 July 2020

Community leaders oppose Makhaza occupation

“I have been on the housing database for years, but I still have no house” says occupier

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News | 27 July 2020

Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics

Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee

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Brief | 27 July 2020

SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest

Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement

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News | 26 July 2020

SJC head Axolile Notywala arrested

Witness claims arrested activists were filming police but not obstructing them

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News | 24 July 2020