Housing
Reblocking unsettles Tembisa residents
Some community members says they were not aware of the hardship it would involve
By Zoë Postman
News | 18 April 2018
Edendale residents say they will not vote in 2019
March on legislature to demand better living conditions
Brief | 18 April 2018
Violence erupts in Vrygrond after shack demolitions
Ward councillor says City is awaiting outcome of a court case over the vacant land
By Thembela Ntongana and Bernard Chiguvare
News | 17 April 2018
Truck stopped at gunpoint then set alight in Dunoon
Six people arrested as City continues demolishing shacks
Brief | 17 April 2018
City halted housing project because of violence
“No more fight left” says 62-year-old woman after waiting 28 years for a house
News | 17 April 2018
Khayelitsha land occupiers describe their desperation
About 230 out of an initial 500 people remain, some having had their shacks demolished three times, and yet new land occupiers keep arriving
By Vincent Lali
News | 16 April 2018
Court rules that banks can sell your house for next to nothing
Case involved house valued at R470,000 sold for R40,000 by Standard Bank
Law | 16 April 2018
Seven Hermanus protesters released on bail
Charges have been dropped against six of the 69 arrested so far
Brief | 13 April 2018
Philippi land occupiers threaten to defy court order
“I have nowhere to go. If they destroy our shacks then I would go and live in the streets with my wife and two children.”
News | 12 April 2018