Housing
Dozens of brick and mortar homes built by occupiers demolished on Monday
Public Works claims it only demolished newly built and incomplete homes
Brief | 29 July 2020
Family of 13 living in a shack have “tried everything” but “there are just no jobs”
“I am trying my best to get them a house or a decent place to live in,” says ward councillor
Brief | 29 July 2020
Municipality hands over RDP houses without water, toilets or electricity
Beneficiaries of the housing project say they’ve been battling since they moved in four years ago
News | 28 July 2020
How to respond to Cape Town’s surge in land occupations
Here are seven proposals
By Adi Kumar
Opinion | 27 July 2020
Luyolo land claimants to wait another three years for housing project
“For years people showed us plans for housing then disappeared without anything being done. Many of us had lost hope”
By Thembela Ntongana and Lucas Nowicki
News | 27 July 2020
Community leaders oppose Makhaza occupation
“I have been on the housing database for years, but I still have no house” says occupier
By Vincent Lali
News | 27 July 2020
Plans to build hundreds of toilets stopped by Uitenhage politics
Voting district committee at loggerheads with ward committee
Brief | 27 July 2020
SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest
Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement
News | 26 July 2020
SJC head Axolile Notywala arrested
Witness claims arrested activists were filming police but not obstructing them
By Vincent Lali
News | 24 July 2020