Housing
People occupying Observatory site reject City of Cape Town’s housing offers
They argue that the sites in Philippi, Mfuleni and the Culemborg Safe Space are not reasonable housing options
News | 14 April 2023
Children are dying from izinyoka electricity while Tongaat families wait to be housed
Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Tsoanelo Sefoloko
News | 6 April 2023
Human waste litters the ground in Mountain View - and City of Tshwane has no plans to fix it anytime soon
The City says families living there will be moved when it finds land
News | 5 April 2023
Cleaners in a Durban township say they use their own money to fix broken toilets
The eThekwini Municipality says it will investigate claims that janitors don’t have materials and that most of the toilets in the settlement are broken
Brief | 4 April 2023
Living conditions at “transit camp” in eThekwini Municipality are inhumane, say residents
Camp was intended as temporary housing but 11 years later, many families are still there
News | 4 April 2023
Calls mount for unused military and state land to be released for housing
Housing Development Agency slammed for inaction
News | 31 March 2023
Swartland law enforcement demolish shacks on land earmarked for housing development
About 250 people attempted to occupy land reserved for the De Hoop housing development in Malmesbury
News | 31 March 2023
Unemployment the main cause of homelessness in Tshwane, report finds
Survey counted 4,177 homeless people in the city
News | 28 March 2023
Tensions brew between coloured and black communities in Nigel over housing occupation
“Our government has succeeded in dividing us as a people because we are now fighting against each other because of the mess it created”
News | 24 March 2023