Housing

White farmers and Communist Party members join to fight bank evictions

Protesters demand change to legislation

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News | 21 September 2017

Humansdorp residents protest for better housing

Mayor holds “stakeholder” meeting at country club while residents protest at community hall

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Brief | 21 September 2017

Promised RDP houses after six months: Nine years later they still waiting

“This is not a place I want my grandchildren to grow up in. I do not want to die here.”

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News | 21 September 2017

“Our grass is only cut when they host ANC rallies”

Pietermaritzburg township residents call for street lights, better roads, housing and clean toilets

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News | 21 September 2017

City of Cape Town to provide eight new spaces for homeless people

Councillor admits current law enforcement approach a “lost cause” that’s “foolish” to continue

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News | 15 September 2017

In photos: Cape Town’s affordable housing sites

City has committed to turning 13 sites near the city centre into homes for low-income households

Text by Will Yoder. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

Photo Essay | 14 September 2017

Judge urges Bromwell Street parties to mediate

“It is tragic that people would have to go to Wolwerivier [when] there could have been some place closer to Woodstock for them to stay”

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Law | 14 September 2017

No one held accountable for death of man during Red Ants raid

Months after Samuel Mabunda died, police, security industry, municipality fail to account

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News | 13 September 2017

Judge questions City’s plan to send Woodstock families to Wolwerivier

“If you get sent to Wolwerivier, what is the chance you will be able to get out?”

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News | 12 September 2017

New home for disabled Gugulethu mother

Generous response to GroundUp’s report on Cynthia Ntunje’s plight

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Brief | 12 September 2017

Title deeds: how do we fix the system?

Experts at Open Book Festival debate different approaches to dealing with property in poor neighbourhoods

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News | 8 September 2017

Shackdwellers demand right to return to land

Illegal occupation will not be tolerated, says Nelson Mandela Bay municipality

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Brief | 7 September 2017

Two years on, how is Wolwerivier doing?

Residents describe problems, but also some improvements

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News | 7 September 2017

Dead dogs, dirty nappies, old food: rubbish piles up in Marikana

City says land is private and it therefore cannot provide a refuse service

Text by Denise Patterson. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.

Photo Essay | 6 September 2017

Facts and myths about the Marikana judgment

No, it doesn’t mean we can build shacks in Sea Point and force the City to buy the land for us

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Law | 5 September 2017

Hundreds of shacks demolished in Khayelitsha

Land occupiers say they will rebuild until City finds solution

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News | 5 September 2017