Housing
Dunoon mother and six children among families left homeless after blaze
Some people started rebuilding on Tuesday after the homes of 139 people were gutted by a shack fire on Monday
Brief | 4 November 2020
Families live in shacks on a railway line after housing project abandoned
Housing project built in Pietermaritzburg without sewerage or planning
News | 4 November 2020
1,000 RDP homes substandard and unfinished
R174-million Eastern Cape building fiasco
News | 3 November 2020
Hard life for Fairview’s horse grooms
They want the government to provide services to their informal settlement but it’s on private land. Nevertheless there is hope that a pending land transfer will change things
News | 3 November 2020
Hundreds march for water, electricity and toilets in Khayelitsha
Official says services cannot be provided because some of the land occupations are still before the court
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 2 November 2020
Rondebosch Golf Club lease renewal under fire from housing activists
City says floodline makes land unsuitable for development
By Liezl Human
Brief | 30 October 2020
Homes waterlogged with “liquid shit” for three months
City of Cape Town says the residents have occupied a stormwater retention pond unlawfully
By Vincent Lali
News | 29 October 2020
Subsistence farmers under siege from land occupation
Shacks have been erected in the middle of their crops in Dunoon
Brief | 27 October 2020
Family “dumped” in Wellington can’t travel to work and school
They were forcibly evicted from their home on a farm in Paarl where they lived for 23 years
By Liezl Human
News | 27 October 2020