Housing
Three months after they move in, family’s RDP house burns down
Fire in Wallacedene destroys 85 homes
Brief | 20 January 2020
Residents look forward to government officials travelling on potholed road and “feeling their pain”
Willowfontein residents fed up with broken promises
News | 17 January 2020
Fed-up after 20 years on a waiting list, gogo builds her own house
Gloria Matebe collected the wood to build her new home from a nearby dumpsite
By Mpumi Kiva
News | 17 January 2020
Bonnytoun residents ignored by City of Cape Town
“We will not protest and destroy infrastructure like other communities do, but we are asking the City to do their work.”
Brief | 17 January 2020
Woodstock pensioner fights her eviction
Landlord pushed up rent by 37%
By Liezl Human
News | 16 January 2020
Families queue to get electricity reconnected
Relatives of deceased account holders must re-apply for benefits, says Nelson Mandela Bay municipality
News | 16 January 2020
Dozens of learners without uniforms, stationery after devastating fire
Residents blame municipality for failing to move them to “promised land”
Brief | 15 January 2020
We are living with the dead, say Cookhouse residents
Families complain graves are too close to their houses
News | 14 January 2020
Scores attend funeral of poisoned children in Motherwell
Families considering legal action against municipality
Brief | 13 January 2020