Housing
New round of demolitions in Cato Manor
Shack dwellers say their belongings were torched, leaving them destitute
By Musa Binda
Brief | 5 August 2019
Heideveld residents say their RDP houses are shoddily built
Homes are leaking and walls are cracked, they claim
Brief | 1 August 2019
Three children die in Durban fire
“I left them sleeping when I went to work”
By Musa Binda
Brief | 31 July 2019
Company leaves R164 million housing project unfinished
No houses for some, unfinished houses for others in Mdantsane RDP project
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and GroundUp Staff
News | 30 July 2019
After 25 years of waiting for government, Ncwadi erupts in protests
“Now that we are doing what other communities are doing, police shoot at us. Protesting is the last option but we had no choice.”
News | 30 July 2019
Masiphumelele fire leaves over 1,000 homeless
One person killed, but body burnt so badly that their sex cannot be determined
News | 29 July 2019
Ten families living in the open after 35 households evicted in Nigel
Elderly widow evicted from her home of 35 years
News | 29 July 2019
Attitudes towards land occupations have to change, say researchers
Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa has released a series of reports on informal settlements
Brief | 29 July 2019
Residents of apartheid-era shack town still have no electricity or toilets
“Government has chosen to forget us”
News | 26 July 2019