Housing

VIDEO: Bree Street residents in limbo after underground explosion

We spoke to residents of Johannesburg’s Bree Street after Wednesday’s underground explosion. They complained about the lack of information from authorities and they are uncertain if they will have to evacuate.

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Video | 20 July 2023

Victory for Abahlali and the Sheffield shack dwellers

KwaDukuza Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has agreed to include over 300 households from the settlement in a new housing project

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News | 20 July 2023

City of Cape Town has built fewer than 20 social housing units in the inner city in six years, say activists

City says it has made more than 32,000 square metres of land available but there are challenges, including “hijacking” of buildings

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News | 19 July 2023

Flood victim Maria Mokgethi just wants a bit of help to rebuild her life

She and scores of others have been living in a community hall since February when floods destroyed their shacks in Tshwane

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News | 19 July 2023

Hundreds march in Cape Town demanding better housing

Shack dwellers and backyarders say their living conditions are unbearable

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Brief | 17 July 2023

Thousands left homeless by devastating Kennedy Road shack fire

One man died in the blaze early on Sunday morning

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Brief | 17 July 2023

District Six residents oppose homeless shelter on historic site

Protesters want former Tafelberg crèche to be used for a community centre instead

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News | 17 July 2023

Truck torched in Gqeberha electricity protest

Chaos on busy Addo Road

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Brief | 13 July 2023

R15-million Covid housing project ruined by fraud

Fraud accused in 2020 Talana construction case still to be brought to court

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News | 12 July 2023

Public Protector probes government’s 2022 flood relief efforts

Auditor-General recently revealed that KwaZulu-Natal only spent R251-million of the R5.8-billion budget allocated in the aftermath of the 2022 floods

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News | 12 July 2023

Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack

Oyama Meje and two adults died on Sunday night in Phola Park informal settlement fire

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News | 10 July 2023

Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest

SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha

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News | 6 July 2023

Dunoon residents battle blaze from their shack roofs

Fire destroys 50 homes, leaving families in the biting cold

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Brief | 6 July 2023

KwaZulu-Natal tornado victims hoping for rapid help

Some Inanda families lost all their possessions and their homes

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Brief | 5 July 2023

Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer

Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead

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News | 5 July 2023

City of Tshwane probes illegal suburb

Leeuwfontein has been developed without subdivision or approval by local authorities. Now residents want services

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News | 5 July 2023