Housing
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
District Six: This time the bulldozers are there to build houses
Long-buried houses revealed as diggers clear the site for housing
Text by James Stent. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 24 July 2020
In photos: Standoff between police and occupiers of Cape Town nature reserve
This is an especially large occupation
Photo Essay | 24 July 2020
Two schools torched in protest for land
“They are threatening our future. This year is already hard with Covid-19” says matric student
News | 23 July 2020
79-year-old in housing occupation faces eviction
Only 54 houses built in six years instead of 600 in Nigel housing project
News | 22 July 2020
“We are the rightful owners of these houses” say occupiers
City of Cape Town says they are jeopardising the allocation of houses to elderly beneficiaries
Brief | 22 July 2020
Burning of clinic: suspects in court
Mayor says some services suspended after “wanton acts of vandalism”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 21 July 2020