Housing

City of Cape Town clamps down on illegal extensions to houses

More than 100 property entrepreneurs in Dunoon face prosecution

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News | 8 May 2018

Western Cape government fails to explain security contract

GroundUp has now submitted a request under the access to public information act

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Brief | 7 May 2018

New evidence adds spice to vital eviction case

SJC video shows shacks were occupied when Law Enforcement removed them

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Law | 4 May 2018

Shack dwellers live in filth in Kraaifontein

Residents depend on neighbours in RDP houses for basic services

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News | 4 May 2018

Mitchells Plain and Siqalo residents hold crisis meeting

“If we start a racial war in this country, it is going to help no one.”

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News | 3 May 2018

Tembisa residents meet councillors to discuss reblocking concerns

Speaker of Ekurhuleni Council to visit Vusimuzi to see conditions

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Brief | 3 May 2018

Evicted occupiers bed down outside Civic Centre

Protest comes ahead of court case to decide if demolitions carried out by the City of Cape Town are legal

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Brief | 3 May 2018

Violent clashes between Mitchells Plain and Siqalo residents

30 people arrested for public violence

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Brief | 2 May 2018

Cape Town needs to invest in places like Malawi Camp

Airport settlement is test of municipality’s commitment to investing in poor communities

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Opinion | 2 May 2018

All Hermanus land protesters released on bail

Minister to return to Zwelihle on 15 May

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Brief | 2 May 2018

Humansdorp families stuck in emergency housing since 2011

“The municipality promised to relocate us to another site but nothing has happened so far”

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News | 30 April 2018

I love it here, says dump site resident

Families living next to New England landfill say they can walk to collect their groceries

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News | 30 April 2018

Much needed Cape rain floods homes

Khayelitsha residents wake early to find their shacks soaking

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Photo Essay | 27 April 2018

Sewer pipe collapses and destroys homes

Our whole living room collapsed and our bedroom where my wife was sleeping, says resident

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News | 26 April 2018

Know your rights: when can you be evicted and how?

No-one can be evicted without an order of a court

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Law | 26 April 2018

Vrygrond residents to restart land occupation

Community leaders unhappy with outcome of meeting with mayor

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News | 25 April 2018