Housing
Government sent back to the drawing board for Tafelberg site
Heritage committee and local residents’ association raise alarm over lack of detail in the current proposal for development
News | 13 March 2026
Public Works to evict three former MK MPs from state subsidised housing
The former MPs have refused to vacate the parliamentary village since they were removed from Parliament in August 2024
Brief | 12 March 2026
Hundreds gather to remember children killed in shack blaze
A fire in Shaka’s Head near KwaDukuza killed five people on 28 February
Brief | 9 March 2026
Shacks demolished while eviction case drags on for Durban’s Piedmont Park
The municipality says it will only be able to provide alternative accommodation in 2027
By Tsoanelo Sefoloko and Joseph Bracken
Brief | 9 March 2026
Observatory land occupiers wait to hear their fate
The City of Cape Town has offered to move families living on Main Road to a site in Gugulethu
Text by Mary-Anne Gontsana. Photos by Dave Fisher.
News | 5 March 2026
Woman with throat cancer waits 11 years for house
Noncedo Holiwe lives in a crumbling, two-roomed mud house with broken windows and a leaking roof
Brief | 3 March 2026
How a company is making affordable housing possible
And what municipalities can do to help
Interview | 3 March 2026
Here’s the status of the SABC building in Sea Point
MPs grill housing entities in Parliament
Parliament | 26 February 2026
Gqeberha budget bungle sparks protest
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality officials will visit Westville informal settlement next Tuesday to give feedback on its plan for the area
Brief | 26 February 2026