Ward councillor says the move is urgently needed in order to fix sewage pipes affecting the whole area
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 19 February 2024
More families moved onto land during Covid
By Vincent Lali
News | 6 February 2024
The Khayelitsha Community Trust plans to build a private hospital displacing informal settlement formed during Covid
By Vincent Lali
News | 2 February 2024
At least two people died and three shacks were destroyed in a taxi accident on Old Faure Road near Mfuleni on Friday
By Vincent Lali
News | 29 January 2024
The whole of Khayelitsha is affected by a blocked sewer line, says City of Cape Town
By Vincent Lali
News | 25 January 2024
This is the latest in a series of attacks on this group of land occupiers since August
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 November 2023
They say the sand is damaging their shacks. The City of Cape Town says the affected households will only be relocated in 2024
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 November 2023
Electricity theft has left Nomsa Maphongwana Primary School in Mandela Park with a Eskom bill of more than R167,880
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 November 2023
Service provider withdrew after threats at gunpoint and extortion attempts
By Sandiso Phaliso and Vincent Lali
News | 9 November 2023
“We sleep with our kids on our plots because we don’t want other residents to build their own shacks on them”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 3 November 2023
Frustrated victims then occupied vacant land nearby
By Vincent Lali
News | 30 October 2023
Violence and tensions between land occupiers and backyarders has been brewing for months in Khayelitsha
By Vincent Lali
News | 26 October 2023
Western Cape mops up after devastating floods
By Vincent Lali and Ashraf Hendricks
News | 26 September 2023
Man dies, apparently from electrocution
By Vincent Lali and Peter Luhanga
News | 25 September 2023
Western Cape health department says a mobile clinic for medical collections, disease screenings and family planning is in the pipeline
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 22 September 2023
Shack dwellers say City of Cape Town is slow to respond to complaints
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 21 September 2023