Housing
Court asked to oversee Drakenstein Municipality emergency housing plan
“The situation was allowed to continue for 20 years and those directly affected are particularly vulnerable”, says advocate
By Liezl Human
Brief | 6 August 2020
Campaigns failing to stop farm evictions, say civil society organisations
Webinar highlights plight of women on farms, calls on President to honour promise
News | 5 August 2020
Farm worker’s housing case in court this week
Drakenstein municipality accused of breaching its Constitutional obligations
By Liezl Human
News | 5 August 2020
Partially blind woman faces eviction
The owner of the shack Siphiwe Mdluli rents wants to move back in
News | 4 August 2020
Gugulethu residents at wits end with company that built their flood prone houses
Cape Town Community Housing Company hits back: “If you bought something, you own it and you are responsible for it”
News | 3 August 2020
Gugulethu group stop housing project
Disgruntled beneficiaries say houses being built at Erf 8448 “are not what we were shown more than 15 years ago”
Brief | 3 August 2020
Covid Village occupiers live in limbo
Minister Sisulu to discuss N2 occupation with Cabinet, says Mbulelo Ncedana
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 3 August 2020
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