Housing
Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers
City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report
News | 20 March 2019
Cape Town women’s group pools money to build houses
It’s a stokvel with a difference
Brief | 19 March 2019
Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive
“The City will never help us until we protest.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 March 2019
Masiphumelele shack dwellers threaten to occupy land if City doesn’t give dates for new houses
Plato blames De Lille for making promises to community. De Lille says: “He’s talking nonsense.”
By Ella Ndongeni and GroundUp Staff
News | 18 March 2019
Cape Town shack dwellers march for RDP houses
“As long as each family has a tap, a toilet, and a box of electricity, we will be happy.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 March 2019
Life in Woodstock Hospital
An abandoned state-owned property has become home to over 700 people
Photo Essay | 15 March 2019
Ten eviction attempts but land occupiers rebuild in Tembisa
“I was in shock. I didn’t expect them to be so brutal”
By Zoë Postman
News | 15 March 2019
SANDF refuses to re-accommodate immigrants it evicted in Marievale
“They want to break my family apart,” says evictee
News | 14 March 2019
Traditional affairs office burnt down in KZN
“Barbaric act” believed to be by land occupiers angry over government crackdown, says MEC
By Musa Binda
Brief | 14 March 2019