Housing

Doornbach residents resist Covid-19 relocation plan

About 1,500 Dunoon families are to be moved to Winning Way

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Brief | 23 June 2020

Residents thank Covid-19 pandemic for sanitation

After 23 years using a pit latrine, community gets chemical toilets

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Brief | 19 June 2020

New occupation in Uitenhage named Covid Village

Municipality says it is still considering whether to formalise the housing or to follow legal processes for removal

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News | 19 June 2020

Dunoon ward councillor’s office petrol bombed

Land occupation blamed for arson attack

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News | 19 June 2020

Shack dwellers make up their own housing list for new City of Cape Town project

Dozens try to occupy land set aside for Maroela Project

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News | 18 June 2020

Durban fire leaves 150 people homeless and one dead

One of two serious shack fires in city in 24 hours

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Brief | 15 June 2020

Family of five die in shack fire

Teenage daughter survives as she was visiting her cousin at the time of the fire

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News | 15 June 2020

Residents clash with land occupiers in Uitenhage

Municipality says land is earmarked for beneficiaries of de-densification programme

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News | 12 June 2020

Asylum seeker with spinal cord injury faces eviction from his shack

Markus Nyoni can no longer pay his rent because of the Covid-19 pandemic

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News | 12 June 2020

Conflict in Hout Bay as City demolishes structures

Teargas, rubber bullets and stones exchanged between police and residents

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News | 11 June 2020

In photos: Cape Town flooded

The city has been hit by hail, lightning, thunder and heavy rain since Wednesday

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Photo Essay | 11 June 2020

Flooded shack dwellers occupy dry private land

Residents of Waterfront informal settlement want to move to Philippi Village property

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Photo Essay | 11 June 2020

Homeless immigrants secure winter shelter

But a couple of dozen others still live in Cape Town park

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News | 10 June 2020

“We are not evicting the residents, we are relocating them” says councillor

Human rights lawyer condemns “forceful and unlawful” evictions by SANDF

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News | 5 June 2020

Covid-19: Mother fears for disabled daughter’s life

Woman with debilitating co-morbidities lives with five people in a shack that has no toilet

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Brief | 5 June 2020