Housing

Fire in Masiphumelele leaves 15 families homeless

Some of the affected residents were also victims of the 2015 blaze

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Brief | 25 July 2017

Sea Point Jewish residents and domestic workers meet over Tafelberg

Claims of anti-semitism in affordable housing campaign are “totally baseless and silly”, says activist

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News | 25 July 2017

Steenvilla social housing residents protest evictions

Company says some households haven’t paid rent for a year, while residents say they can’t afford increases

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News | 24 July 2017

Hout Bay residents agree to keep the peace

But community remains split over reblocking and several leaders have been arrested for public violence

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News | 24 July 2017

Armed attack on occupiers of Helen Bowden Nurses Home

Activists believe it was politically motivated

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Brief | 24 July 2017

Houses damaged in N2 Gateway dispute

Residents and housing project steering committee members question beneficiary lists

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Brief | 24 July 2017

Violence erupts in Hout Bay as City attempts to reblock

Anti-Land Invasion Unit demolishes over 50 shacks

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News | 20 July 2017

Everything you need to know about government housing

Struggling to understand how to get a government house? We hope this guide helps you.

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Explainer | 20 July 2017

300 beds added to Western Cape’s shelters over past three years

But Cape Town CBD homeless shelters still need more beds

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News | 20 July 2017

Red Ants turf residents out of Johannesburg building

But legality of inner city eviction under question

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News | 19 July 2017

Official threatened me with old age home, says granny

75-year-old woman says she was told she would be sent to an institution if she did not shut up about her RDP house

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News | 19 July 2017

City announces U-turn on social housing

Reclaim the City welcomes plans for ten new sites for affordable housing but says it remains cautious

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News | 18 July 2017

Where a house for one means homelessness for another

Many people have lost their backyard shacks after RDP houses built in Wallacedene

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News | 18 July 2017

We can fix the rural housing shortage

But it will need farmers, municipalities, NGOs, unions, and businesses to work together

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Opinion | 17 July 2017

Leader in Khayelitsha land occupation murdered

“We don’t know who to trust. We don’t know who is next.”

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News | 17 July 2017

Red Ants accused of firing rubber bullets

Residents also claim their belongings were stolen during evictions

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News | 14 July 2017