Housing
Residents threaten to destroy new road
People who had homes demolished for road construction in 2013 have still not been compensated
Brief | 20 August 2018
Land occupiers raise funds for fire victim, water installations, gravel roads
City of Cape Town criticises illegal water connections at Khayelitsha land occupation
By Vincent Lali
News | 20 August 2018
Land occupiers in Mthatha won’t move until they get houses
Municipality says the vacant land is earmarked for a “major development”
Brief | 20 August 2018
Court gives Bella Vista occupiers a month to submit affidavits
Witzenberg Municipality says the homes were only for people who had been waiting more than ten years
Brief | 16 August 2018
Cape Town’s homeless and evicted march to Mayor’s office
Social movement Housing Assembly wants housing for all an end to illegal evictions
Brief | 16 August 2018
Court to decide how to handle home repossessions
Activist group wants judges to be able to waive reserve prices only in exceptional circumstances
By Ciaran Ryan
Law | 16 August 2018
National government to “go after” housing officials, blacklist contractors for rotten buildings
162 duplex flats to be demolished in Port Elizabeth
News | 15 August 2018
Former mayor promised us houses, say Nyanga residents
Shack dwellers in Lotus Park emergency housing say they have been waiting since 2003
News | 15 August 2018
Stand off between Old Mutual and Khayelitsha occupiers
Residents were removed but returned almost immediately
By Vincent Lali
Feature | 13 August 2018