Housing
Twenty arrested after shops of foreign nationals looted and torched
Human rights groups have criticised government’s inaction to deal with xenophobic attacks
News | 31 July 2020
PE shack dwellers shut down neighbourhood
“We want to get the attention of this municipality. But if officials don’t address us we will stop all the projects in this ward.”
News | 30 July 2020
Durban is “waging war” on the poor during a pandemic, says shack dweller movement
Homes demolished in Cato Manor
News | 29 July 2020
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