Housing
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
Railway line shack dwellers trash ward councillor
Protesters are demanding services and recognition for Eyadini informal settlement in Cape Town
By Vincent Lali
News | 26 October 2020
Court order has big implications for land expropriation
Municipality must return land to 84-year-old pensioner because it didn’t obtain his consent, suggesting that parts of the Expropriation Act are unconstitutional
Law | 23 October 2020
No housing on Rondebosch Golf Club for now
City says the land is unsuitable, but Ndifuna Ukwazi says the decision is “blindingly shortsighted”
By Liezl Human
News | 22 October 2020
Housing protest after Gauteng “delivers nothing” on 2018 promise
Protesters want to know what happened to the Rapid Land Release Program
By Zoë Postman
News | 22 October 2020
Shack dwellers want a share of toilet building tender
“Nothing about shack dwellers without involving shack dwellers” says member of new business forum
News | 20 October 2020