Topic: Housing | GroundUp

Using municipal land for bowling greens during a housing crisis is unjust

Fish Hoek has enough space to build affordable housing

By Julian Sendin

Opinion | 14 June 2018

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Criminals prey on Vastrap’s disabled residents

20 Port Elizabeth families have been living in containers for four years

By Joseph Chirume

News | 14 June 2018

Hope at last for residents of one of Cape Town’s oldest informal settlements

Toilets to be installed in Taiwan in Khayelitsha after protests

By Thembela Ntongana

News | 13 June 2018

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Protesters who targeted funeral processions finally get houses

Uitenhage families moved after 20 years in shacks

By Thamsanqa Mbovane

News | 13 June 2018

Councillor’s office set ablaze by people whose shacks were demolished

Violence is the language the government understands, says land occupier

By Peter Luhanga

News | 12 June 2018

Illegal electricity connections are our only option, say shack-dwellers

“We know how dangerous these cables are”

By Chris Gilili

News | 12 June 2018

Still no solution for Wembley Stadium families

Families living in tents one year after evictions

By Zoë Postman

News | 11 June 2018

Khayelitsha residents destroy shack in xenophobic attack

“People destroyed my shack and took everything. They say they don’t want a kwere kwere to stay here.”

By Vincent Lali

News | 11 June 2018

City commits to accommodating Maynard Street tenants

“There will be no evictions” says councillor

By Aidan Jones

News | 8 June 2018

Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late

Residents say cooking accident started blaze

By Magnificent Mndebele

News | 7 June 2018

Gugulethu man blames City contractors for his crooked house

Mzwandile Mvumvu believes his house collapsed after work was done on sewage pipes outside

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

News | 7 June 2018

Expropriating land without compensation: shack-dwellers have their say

“People just want decent homes. They are not asking for palaces.”

By Peter Luhanga

News | 5 June 2018

Protests close down Cape Town business district

Westlake marchers walk 8km to councillor’s office demanding housing

By Thembela Ntongana and Bernard Chiguvare

News | 4 June 2018

Tsunami residents demand toilets and a clean neighbourhood

“Sometimes residents return from the bushes undressed after thugs rob them of their clothes and hard-earned cash.”

By Vincent Lali

News | 4 June 2018

Five children die in Philippi fire

Nearest tap was hundreds of metres away

By Bernard Chiguvare

News | 3 June 2018

Dispute over legality of Khayelitsha shack demolitions

Social Justice Coalition claims shacks were occupied and that City didn’t have eviction order

By Thembela Ntongana

News | 1 June 2018