Housing
Huge shack demolition in Johannesburg
We will not vote if this is how we are treated, say shackdwellers
By Zoë Postman
News | 30 April 2019
Deadline for families facing eviction from Noordhoek land
Landowner Judy Sole offered each family R35,000
News | 30 April 2019
Declare disaster zone, pleads flood victim in Port St Johns informal settlement
“The municipality promised us RDP houses in a safe place, but more than five years later we’re in the same situation”
News | 29 April 2019
Elevators at City of JHB retirement home have not worked for months
Some disabled residents are unable to leave the floor they live on
By Zoë Postman
News | 27 April 2019
Protesters burn Khayelitsha health facility
“The clinic helps us with tests for chronic diseases. Now we will have to travel long distances to other areas to get treatment”
By Vincent Lali
News | 26 April 2019
RDP house flooded every time it rains
“I was better off staying in the shacks”
Brief | 26 April 2019
Red Ants demolish 110 shacks in Dunoon
About 500 land occupiers lose their homes
News | 25 April 2019
Buy or expropriate the land, Marikana shack dwellers tell City
“In a big and beautiful city like Cape Town I don’t expect this kind of life”
Brief | 24 April 2019
Protest after informal settlement flooded in Durban
Councillor promises to act after residents call for disaster relief
By Musa Binda
Brief | 24 April 2019