Housing
When government is a slumlord: Pefferville’s ghastly blocks of flats
“When it’s time to vote they will come here in numbers, yet we do not get any services from them”
By Chris Gilili
News | 19 September 2018
110 families in Mfuleni have no taps, toilets, electricity or even rubbish bin bags
“Government never told us where we should live after we had to move out”
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 September 2018
Zwelitsha shack-dwellers are building their own toilets and roads
Settlement not a priority, says City of Cape Town
By Vincent Lali
Feature | 14 September 2018
Gauteng court rules against cheap bank repossessions
Judgment is a victory for Johannesburg homeowners, and possibly homeowners across the country
By Ciaran Ryan
Law | 13 September 2018
Did Cape Town lose millions on Foreshore land sale?
City appears to have sold property to Growthpoint for R1,880 instead of R5,000 per square metre of possible floor space
News | 13 September 2018
Hostel has one toilet for 39 households
“We are being undermined because we are staying in a hostel”
Brief | 13 September 2018
Affordable Housing: City of Cape Town and developers at crossroads
An inclusionary housing policy can stimulate density and new development
By Jonty Cogger and Jared Rossouw
Opinion | 11 September 2018
Sportsfield now a new informal settlement
Over 300 households are making a life for themselves in newly-named Ekupholeni
News | 10 September 2018
KwaMashu hostel residents fed up with City’s neglect
“Sometimes I don’t even tell people where I live. I refuse to believe that there is a community allowed to live like this.”
News | 7 September 2018