Housing

80-year-old Woodstock man evicted from his home of 43 years

Family spends night on the street

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Brief | 17 September 2019

Services delayed, inaccessible after wave of protests in Motherwell

“This has definitely affected development in the ward” says councillor

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News | 16 September 2019

Confusion over land ownership leaves Butterworth residents in limbo

Hundreds of families without services for 12 years

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News | 16 September 2019

Housing activists take City of Cape Town to court

Activists want new developments in city centre to include affordable housing

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Law | 14 September 2019

Ten schools closed as police chase land occupiers into Strand

“No one wants to stand up for us” say occupiers

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News | 12 September 2019

How do we reduce shack fires?

City’s poorest residents use both insurance and technology to fight fires

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Feature | 10 September 2019

Land occupiers rebuild shacks next to the N2, burn tyres and rubble

Nomzamo schools close, fearing responses to protest action

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News | 9 September 2019

“Proper shelter can change a person completely”

The City of Cape Town has relocated people to the Pickwick site close to the city centre. And it’s working.

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News | 6 September 2019

Cape Town cops assault land occupier

City says it will investigate

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Brief | 4 September 2019

Brakpan residents accuse municipality of excluding them from housing project

“They will only remove us in coffins” says protester

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Brief | 3 September 2019

Malawian family among dead in shack fire

Four die in Lwandle

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Brief | 2 September 2019

Residents give Gauteng Premier seven days to respond to demand for land

Land identified for possible housing has been standing vacant for months

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News | 31 August 2019

Khayelitsha land occupiers to square off with City in court

The group occupying land in Makhaza plan to oppose their eviction in court on 9 September

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News | 30 August 2019

Despatch housing project halted by “political tensions”

A group of residents have occupied a housing project site in a protest against their ward councillor

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News | 30 August 2019

Tensions flare at Cape housing dialogue

Gatvol Capetonian has given government 30 days to address some of their demands

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News | 29 August 2019

115 households in Despatch left in the cold while municipality and Housing Development Agency shift blame

“Every morning I wake up and sit on that cement foundation just to get the sun”

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News | 29 August 2019