Housing
Municipal officials suspended amid allegations of “selling RDP houses”
Residents still living in shacks are billed for houses they have never seen
News | 30 March 2020
Hundreds of incomplete RDP homes left to rot
National and provincial human settlements departments say NU29 housing project is responsibility of the municipality
News | 30 March 2020
Covid-19: Homeless people in Muizenberg are afraid and anxious
“No one has talked to us about the virus. We don’t know what it can do to us. All we know is that you must wash your hands.”
Brief | 27 March 2020
ANC members accused of selling land for illegal occupation
Angered community leader responds by selling sites for just R1
News | 27 March 2020
Housing backlog exceeds half a million in Western Cape
City and Province’s housing demand drive adds 10,000 more to the database
Feature | 26 March 2020
Our living conditions deserve the same attention as Coronavirus, say angry shackdwellers
Roads blocked, buses set alight in Port Elizabeth
News | 25 March 2020
Families moved to “serviced sites” say they are worse off than before
131 households in Jaagvlakte find themselves without water
News | 24 March 2020
Residents vow to fight for services at funeral for boy killed by illegal electricity connection
Angry mourners defy government’s ban on gatherings of more than 100 people
Brief | 23 March 2020
Dozens of families spend night outside amid ongoing evictions
“They left us with nothing. I don’t know where I will go now” says Khayelitsha occupier
By Vincent Lali
News | 23 March 2020