Housing
Mother tells of her child’s death in shack fire
Family unable to afford funeral for nine-year-old
News | 8 March 2018
Why we woke up Brett Herron at 5am with koesiesters
People evicted from their homes cannot be dumped in Blikkiesdorp or Wolwerivier
Opinion | 7 March 2018
City removes people occupying Gugulethu land
Eviction takes place despite upcoming meeting between mayor and occupiers
Brief | 6 March 2018
Housing picket outside Brett Herron’s home
Herron says Wolwerivier is all the City can offer for now
News | 6 March 2018
Gugulethu occupiers call for City to buy land for them
“If the City builds double-storey flats here, about 700 homeless residents can get a place to stay”
By Vincent Lali
News | 5 March 2018
City says no money to house evictees in Woodstock
Albert Road residents refuse to move to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier
Brief | 1 March 2018
“Chocolate City”, where houses melt in the rain
Hundreds have lived in mud homes for decades in Dambuza
Brief | 1 March 2018
Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless
“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”
News | 28 February 2018
Ramaphosa’s “most important people”
GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament
News | 27 February 2018