Some Bonteheuwel residents who attended a public meeting addressed by Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille last night allege she told them to "voetsek" and other insults. The meeting descended into chaos at one point, and the versions of what happened that have been published by the mayor and a residents' group contradict each other.
GroundUp Staff and Bernard Chiguvare
News | 2 October 2015
Witsand residents who live near an open field situated behind the township woke up to the “unbearable smell” of stagnant sewage water on Friday 25 September.
Barbara Maregele
News | 1 October 2015
It was a weekend of flaring emotions and violence at Wolwerivier relocation area. On Friday, residents protested against the City’s relocation of strangers into empty units sought by the community to alleviate the overcrowding at the settlement. Rubber bullets were fired into crowds containing mostly women and children. People were arrested and beaten when they refused to disperse.
Daneel Knoetze
Feature | 21 September 2015
Blikkiesdorp residents are calling for better policing after a spike in crime in the area. Seven families have already been moved to Wolwerivier at their request by the City of Cape Town.
Barbara Maregele
News | 21 September 2015
The drawn out struggle for serviced sites in Ward 108 in Bardale, Mfuleni, has led to allegations of mismanagement and corruption. These allegations emerged following the removal of 45 illegally erected structures in the area on Monday by the City of Cape Town’s Anti-Land Invasion Unit (ALIU). Stones were thrown and rubber bullets fired. About 16 people were arrested.
Ashleigh Furlong
News | 17 September 2015
Angry residents of an informal settlement in Port Elizabeth who took to the streets on Monday have vowed to continue with their protests until they are moved to better housing nearby.
Joseph Chirume
News | 16 September 2015
Two brothers and a sister face eviction from their home by a man who bought the house from their father without the children’s knowledge.
Pharie Sefali
News | 16 September 2015
Faulty water meter devices have left residents living in the newly built Delft Symphony Precinct housing development without water for weeks.
Barbara Maregele
News | 15 September 2015
Khulu* lived on Table Mountain for two years, eating in soup kitchens, until he found work sweeping streets as part of a programme run by the City of Cape Town and Khulisa Social Solutions. Today he has a job and owns a wendy house in Khayelitsha.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 10 September 2015
“Not only does this place stink, pigs eat here as well, making the place smell even more," says Sakhumzi Kholisile of Khayelitsha informal settlement in Duncan Village, East London.
Siphesihle Matyila
News | 10 September 2015
Residents of Walter Sisulu in Mdantsane protested on Tuesday, claiming the RDP houses they were due to move into had not been built properly.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 9 September 2015
Cato Manor has a long history of struggle and repression. Women have often been in the forefront of these struggles. This history is well known in Durban. Many families from KwaMashu have roots in Cato Manor. KwaMashu was created to house some of the people forcibly removed from Cato Manor under the Group Areas Act. They were taken from land in the city where they had some autonomy and moved out of the city to a segregated township under strict control of the apartheid state.
Ndabo Mzimela
Opinion | 8 September 2015
Andiswa Nkuphe lives with her eight siblings. Their house is a shipping container. Despite good school results and ambitions of becoming a nurse, she has to take care of her siblings, because their mother has been sick for almost two years and she's been in hospital since January this year.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 8 September 2015
The reason for the recent protests by Langa residents is the delay in answers to complaints and demands handed peacefully over to the Mayor’s office on the 26 July 2015.
Vusi Mandindi
Opinion | 4 September 2015
It's 7:30 on Monday evening and the Youth Solutions Africa shelter for the homeless in Salt River is abuzz.
Barbara Maregele
News | 2 September 2015
People who live in shacks and backyards burnt tyres and rubbish earlier today in Langa. They alleged that other people have jumped the waiting list for units in a new block of flats, leaving them without homes.
Masixole Feni and GroundUp Staff
Brief | 1 September 2015