Housing

Families who were moved for the 2010 World Cup are still living in their “transit camp”

Residents of KwaDabeka camp implore the eThekwini municipality to hear their pleas

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Brief | 29 April 2025

Major legal battle looms over Stellenbosch luxury estate

Botmaskop developer says it has complied with statutory requirements

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News | 23 April 2025

Blaauwberg residents locked in battle over dune development

Ecologically sensitive land is at risk, and some of those who oppose the project say their input has not been taken into account

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News | 23 April 2025

Court halts further work on luxury Stellenbosch mountain estate

Botsmaskop development stopped, pending a full court review

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News | 17 April 2025

Future of Khoisan settlement in Grabouw hangs in the balance

Knoflokskraal has a restaurant, nursery, livestock farming and vegetable gardens, but little water

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News | 16 April 2025

Should you give handouts at traffic lights? A view from the street

People helping do so out of goodwill and with the best intentions

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Opinion | 15 April 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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