Housing
Beacon Bay community takes protest to mayor
Showdown looms as residents demand timeframes but Xola Pakati refuses to give any.
News | 17 November 2017
“Nowhere to hold my brother’s funeral”
Pietermaritzburg families’ long wait for promised houses
News | 14 November 2017
Family of 8 live in one-room mud house
Disabled daughter doesn’t get her grant because of a birth certificate problem
News | 11 November 2017
Fire in Cape Town inner city slum
Families now have to sleep in a hall inside the building
Brief | 10 November 2017
“I’m 83 years old and I will die homeless”
Elderly residents of Pietermaritzburg are renting RDP houses they had hoped to own
News | 10 November 2017
Affordable housing in Cape Town: are we being fooled?
Rush to build it all in Woodstock and Salt River
By Ute Kuhlmann
Opinion | 9 November 2017
65-year-old loses shack in flood
Thembinkosi Mvinjelwa has been waiting for a formal house for many years
Brief | 9 November 2017
Families live in fear below high-voltage lines
Shack dwellers in Sondela informal settlement have no legal electricity, rubbish collection or toilets
By Vincent Lali
News | 8 November 2017
Cape Town’s city centre slum
Residents abandoned by landlord. Now Public Works wants to evict them.
News | 8 November 2017