Housing

Homeless people evicted from disused property in Cape Town city centre

Evictees claim they improved the place while their neighbours describe it as a “den of prostitution, crime, and drugs”

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News | 28 June 2017

Newly repaired community hall torched

City officials to meet with Joe Slovo Park leaders in a bid to end protests that started after shack demolitions

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News | 27 June 2017

Joe Slovo Park residents torch MyCiTi bus after shacks demolished

Land occupation followed removal of school classrooms

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News | 26 June 2017

No houses for residents relocated two years ago

And no answers from the municipality on Mdantsane’s abandoned housing project

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News | 26 June 2017

Police and NPA want land occupiers “punished by the courts”

Protesters accused of attacking school bus

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Brief | 23 June 2017

Second week of mass evictions and violent protests in Port Elizabeth

Police conduct 3am raid, arrest 12 and confiscate petrol bombs and tyres

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News | 21 June 2017

Masiphumelele residents question City’s compliance with court interdict

“They asked me if it was my house. I went inside but they knocked it down anyway.”

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News | 21 June 2017

“This is not a place for human beings”

Blikkiesdorp was supposed to be temporary, but residents are stuck there indefinitely

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News | 20 June 2017

Khayelitsha land occupiers granted bail

Backyarders from Town Two marched to Lingelethu police station on the weekend demanding release of six people who were arrested

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News | 19 June 2017

14 people live in a one-room shack

Mdantsane woman is trapped by debt

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News | 19 June 2017

Khayelitsha backyarders clash with police

People describe their desperation for a place to call home

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News | 19 June 2017

In photos: residents clash with police in Davidsonville

Threat to cut off water and electricity spark protests, but a multitude of festering problems underlie community’s anger

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Photo Essay | 12 June 2017

Court ruling protects people from homelessness

Judgment clarifies what must happen in eviction hearings

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Law | 12 June 2017

Workers fear job losses after forestry burns

200 people evacuated from Longmore Sawmill

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News | 9 June 2017

Gale overturns shacks in Mfuleni and Khayelitsha

City’s informal settlement residents battle to stay dry and warm during this week’s storm

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Photo Essay | 9 June 2017

Man dies in raid by Red Ants

Accusations of theft and assault against eviction squad in Ivory Park

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Feature | 9 June 2017