Housing
Court grants eviction order against alleged housing “hijackers”
Evictees say they were out of options
News | 12 November 2020
Forgotten farm dwellers in Philippi plead for services
They say they do not know who to ask for help as farm owner is impossible to track down
News | 10 November 2020
Two people arrested during protest for jobs, water and electricity
Effingham shack dwellers feel neglected by the eThekwini Municipality
News | 10 November 2020
Tensions reach breaking point in Franschhoek valley
There is a a decades-long battle over Boschendal housing
Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Feature | 6 November 2020
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