Housing

EFF branch chair encourages land occupation in Tshwane

The party has “allocated” 439 plots on municipal land in Ga-Rankuwa Industrial area to people

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Brief | 30 September 2022

Property developer forced to rebuild homes it demolished

Long-time Tilly’s farm residents refuse to make way for housing development

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News | 30 September 2022

Maitland residents refuse to be “squeezed” into temporary structures

City of Cape Town says the Royal Road informal settlement needs to be reconfigured to make space for a community centre

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News | 30 September 2022

School mourns 11-year-old electrocuted by illegal connections

Eskom says its working on ways to help the Dunoon community as many of the shacks are built on private land

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Brief | 29 September 2022

Child drowns in occupied Cape Town nature reserve

Alunga Zonele was swimming in a vlei near the Driftsands informal settlement

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News | 28 September 2022

Government has snubbed us here in Gomora, says 72-year-old Samson Maleka

No toilets, no water, no electricity in Tshwane settlement after 18 years

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News | 28 September 2022

When can someone be removed from public land without a court order?

We explain what the courts have ruled

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Law | 27 September 2022

We want more toilets and better access to water, say Centurion shack dwellers

But City of Tshwane says it has already provided what it can with its budget

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Brief | 21 September 2022

Ndabeni protesters block busy road

City of Cape Town says it can’t provide services to shack dwellers living on private land

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News | 20 September 2022

Gqeberha taxi driver dies after crashing into a protest barricade

Protest called off after mayor promises chemical toilets

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News | 16 September 2022

City of Joburg pays constitutional damages for trying to evict park dwellers

Court settlement reached between Albert Park occupants, and City and metro police

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Law | 16 September 2022

Delivery truck torched by protesters furious with municipality

Westville shack dwellers blame Nelson Mandela Bay municipality for housing delays

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News | 14 September 2022

Evicted “park dwellers” seek damages from City of Johannesburg

“I was treated as a nuisance and not a human being”

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Law | 14 September 2022

A small patch of carpet is all that’s left of his home

Dean Phiri was one of those who lost their shacks in Randburg demolition

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News | 14 September 2022

Here’s who qualifies for Cape Town’s indigent support and lower rates

The City says it helps more than 40% of households with free basic services

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News | 14 September 2022

Minister Creecy washes hands of Grabouw occupation

The Knoflokskraal community still face eviction from the 1,800ha land earmarked for forestation

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News | 13 September 2022