Housing
Human Rights Commission asked to look at farm job losses and evictions
Seasonal farm worker says she was dismissed without full pay and told: “It’s because of the virus”
News | 23 March 2020
Covid-19: Housing activists call for halt to evictions
“The current business as usual response … does not consider the communicable nature of Covid-19”
By Zoë Postman
News | 21 March 2020
Informal settlements rise up against municipality’s “lies”
Roads blocked and cars stoned
Brief | 20 March 2020
PE community leaders blame mayco member for failed relocation
MMC for Human Settlements Andile Mfunda under fire but standing firm
News | 20 March 2020
Tensions high in informal settlement after child is electrocuted
Riemvasmaak residents plan action after the funeral of Royden Plaatjies
News | 19 March 2020
Covid-19: Here’s what occupations in Cape Town are doing in response to the pandemic
Woodstock Hospital is well prepared, but occupiers at Central Methodist Church and Helen Bowden Nurses Home are at great risk
By James Stent
News | 19 March 2020
“I don’t know where I will sleep or get money to buy materials to rebuild my shack”
The City of Cape Town acted on a court order at the weekend demolishing dozens of shacks
By Vincent Lali
News | 17 March 2020
Love dispute blamed for 66 families displaced by shack fire
“We are suffering for arguments between people we don’t know” says victim
Brief | 16 March 2020
Our farm had to evict people: It was lawful and justified
Francina Petersen was dismissed for chronic absenteeism and offered alternative accommodation
By Lance Bouma
Right to reply | 12 March 2020