Housing

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Pensioner who was allocated an RDP house 15 years ago still lives in a mud hut

Free State Department of Human Settlements has promised to help the 75-year-old from Naledi village in Qwaqwa get a house

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News | 11 April 2025

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Developer of R300m Stellenbosch housing estate fights back

Botmaskop Fynbos Estate says a court interdict stopping construction will be “catastrophic”

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News | 11 April 2025

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Department of Public Works bungles Darling Street eviction application

State Attorney did not communicate with residents and failed to enrol the case properly

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News | 10 April 2025

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Landmark judgment on evictions in Johannesburg

City ordered to pay compensation to owner of “hijacked” building because of delay in providing alternative accommodation to residents

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Law | 10 April 2025

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Western Cape promises progress on inner-city housing projects

Several social housing projects in Cape Town will go to tender this year

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News | 9 April 2025

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Cape Town families say City has ‘abandoned’ them

Municipality has no immediate plans to move families living at the Masonwabe temporary relocation area in Gugulethu

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News | 9 April 2025

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Former MPs refuse to leave their subsidised housing in parliamentary villages

State Attorney to take steps to evict them

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News | 3 April 2025

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Legal battle to remove occupiers from land in Ballito

KwaDukuza Municipality says the land is earmarked for a school and clinic, but occupiers say they can’t move away from job opportunities

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News | 3 April 2025

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R750-million budget change hits housing developments in three provinces

Western Cape, Gauteng and Free State are challenging national government’s decision to cut their funds and reallocate them

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News | 2 April 2025

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Eviction must not make immigrants homeless, says court

High Court rules against eviction of people occupying old Circus School premises in Cape Town

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Law | 2 April 2025

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Fed up with promises of housing: Langa residents march to Cape Town Civic Centre

Some of the protesters still live in apartheid era hostels

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Brief | 28 March 2025

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Former Woodstock Hospital can be developed without displacing its occupiers

City of Cape Town should work with and not against the building’s residents, say urban researchers

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Opinion | 28 March 2025

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Hundreds march to Johannesburg mayor’s office demanding houses

Many say they have been waiting 30 years for government housing

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Brief | 27 March 2025

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City of Cape Town proposes affordable housing on prime Green Point site

The land value of the site ranks “among the highest in the southern hemisphere”

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News | 27 March 2025

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Kariega protesters demand to see mayor, boo ward councillor

Informal settlement residents blocked the R344 on Wednesday, demanding better services

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Brief | 12 March 2025

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Construction of homes for Bishopscourt land claimants set to begin

Displaced community received 12-hectares of prime property in affluent Cape Town suburb

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News | 12 March 2025