Housing
Social housing at Salt River Market moves one step forward
Heritage approval granted, but funding is uncertain and informal settlement families still need to be relocated
By Matthew Hirsch and Daniel Steyn
News | 23 June 2025
Darling Street families in limbo after eviction case postponed
The Department of Public Works will meet with the City of Cape Town to discuss alternative accommodation
Brief | 19 June 2025
These families have no toilets, but sewage from other people’s toilets flows past their homes
Riverside informal settlement is built on a floodplain, says City of Cape Town, so services can’t be provided
News | 18 June 2025
There are more than 20,000 unfinished RDP houses in the Free State
One couple has been waiting 14 years for their house to be built
By Tladi Moloi
Brief | 13 June 2025
Benoni pensioners take to the streets
Fix our flats, protesters tell municipality
Brief | 12 June 2025
No money to upgrade Cape Town’s rundown hostels
We visited hostels in Gugulethu which were overcrowded and falling apart
News | 10 June 2025
Families were promised RDP homes. Instead they were left for 15 years without services
Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements says construction will happen later this year
News | 9 June 2025
Pensioner has to live in shack despite ‘owning’ RDP house for 17 years
A 2012 Corruption Watch report stated that the houses “were invaded because they were left empty for a long time”
News | 6 June 2025
RDP occupiers protest at Ekhurhuleni mayor’s office for services
“The City should stop calling us illegal occupants and give us services”
Brief | 5 June 2025