Housing
Brakpan residents accuse municipality of excluding them from housing project
“They will only remove us in coffins” says protester
Brief | 3 September 2019
Residents give Gauteng Premier seven days to respond to demand for land
Land identified for possible housing has been standing vacant for months
By Zoë Postman
News | 31 August 2019
Khayelitsha land occupiers to square off with City in court
The group occupying land in Makhaza plan to oppose their eviction in court on 9 September
By Vincent Lali
News | 30 August 2019
Despatch housing project halted by “political tensions”
A group of residents have occupied a housing project site in a protest against their ward councillor
News | 30 August 2019
Tensions flare at Cape housing dialogue
Gatvol Capetonian has given government 30 days to address some of their demands
News | 29 August 2019
115 households in Despatch left in the cold while municipality and Housing Development Agency shift blame
“Every morning I wake up and sit on that cement foundation just to get the sun”
News | 29 August 2019
Hundreds protest in Booysens Park to be moved to “safer areas”
Resident of Vastrap informal settlement have previously expressed their unhappiness with high crime rates in the area
Brief | 28 August 2019
Evicted Klein Akker families move to state-owned farm in Stellenbosch
“We had a proper wash with privacy for the first time since we were evicted” says farm resident
By Vincent Lali
News | 28 August 2019