Housing

Families live in fear below high-voltage lines

Shack dwellers in Sondela informal settlement have no legal electricity, rubbish collection or toilets

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News | 8 November 2017

Cape Town’s city centre slum

Residents abandoned by landlord. Now Public Works wants to evict them.

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News | 8 November 2017

Ward committee members accused of renting out people’s RDP houses

Endumeni Local Municipality taken to court

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News | 6 November 2017

Attempted land occupation in Kraaifontein

Occupiers say they want the City to help them acquire land peacefully

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News | 6 November 2017

Katlehong family evicted over home loan arrears of R1,000

Nedbank responds to queries about Mashaba case

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News | 6 November 2017

“We will die waiting for our houses”

Elderly shack dwellers in East London have been waiting for formal housing for 25 years

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News | 3 November 2017

No electricity delivery, so illegal suppliers thrive

“It is clear that all basic services are in our hands and not the relevant people”

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News | 3 November 2017

Woodstock woman evicted from her home of 26 years

Carmina Vieira’s case has been taken up by housing activists

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Brief | 1 November 2017

Eviction and the law: what the Constitutional Court says

Western Cape farm case shows the limits of legal battles in the struggle for decent housing

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Law | 31 October 2017

Community moved for 2010 World Cup still living in transit camps

Thousands of families have been stuck for years in camps around Durban

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News | 26 October 2017

Activists halt Woodstock eviction

“This is the direct impact of gentrification”

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News | 25 October 2017

False alarm sets off protest at Cape Town’s biggest social housing complex

WhatsApp message claimed, wrongly, that 600 families were to be evicted on Monday

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Brief | 23 October 2017

Airbnb and Cape Town’s rising rents: an interview with Chris Lehane

The company’s strategy boss says regulation is welcome. But why hasn’t government done so?

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Interview | 23 October 2017

Province committed to affordable housing

A response to Ndifuna Ukwazi’s Jared Rossouw

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Right to reply | 16 October 2017

Imbizo backfires on Buffalo City Mayor

Xola Pakati failed to respond to people’s grievances

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Brief | 13 October 2017