GroundUp contacted shelters across the city
By James Stent
News | 17 June 2020
One of two serious shack fires in city in 24 hours
Brief | 15 June 2020
Teenage daughter survives as she was visiting her cousin at the time of the fire
News | 15 June 2020
Municipality says land is earmarked for beneficiaries of de-densification programme
News | 12 June 2020
Markus Nyoni can no longer pay his rent because of the Covid-19 pandemic
News | 12 June 2020
Teargas, rubber bullets and stones exchanged between police and residents
By James Stent
News | 11 June 2020
The city has been hit by hail, lightning, thunder and heavy rain since Wednesday
By Ashraf Hendricks, Buziwe Nocuze and Lucas Nowicki
Photo Essay | 11 June 2020
Residents of Waterfront informal settlement want to move to Philippi Village property
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 11 June 2020
But a couple of dozen others still live in Cape Town park
By James Stent
News | 10 June 2020
Human rights lawyer condemns “forceful and unlawful” evictions by SANDF
News | 5 June 2020
Woman with debilitating co-morbidities lives with five people in a shack that has no toilet
Brief | 5 June 2020
Every day Nonceba Siyobi sits in the doorway of her home hoping a passerby will help her to the nearest toilet
News | 4 June 2020
If the City of Cape Town can demolish shacks during the lockdown, what is stopping us from evicting tenants? asks backyarder’s landlord
Brief | 3 June 2020
“Normal relocations will resume when things have gone back to normal” says PE councillor
News | 1 June 2020
Wingfield, Youngsfield and Ysterplaat could house more than 120,000 people
By Adi Kumar
Opinion | 1 June 2020