Housing

ANC members accused of selling land for illegal occupation

Angered community leader responds by selling sites for just R1

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News | 27 March 2020

Housing backlog exceeds half a million in Western Cape

City and Province’s housing demand drive adds 10,000 more to the database

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Feature | 26 March 2020

Our living conditions deserve the same attention as Coronavirus, say angry shackdwellers

Roads blocked, buses set alight in Port Elizabeth

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News | 25 March 2020

Families moved to “serviced sites” say they are worse off than before

131 households in Jaagvlakte find themselves without water

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News | 24 March 2020

Residents vow to fight for services at funeral for boy killed by illegal electricity connection

Angry mourners defy government’s ban on gatherings of more than 100 people

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Brief | 23 March 2020

Dozens of families spend night outside amid ongoing evictions

“They left us with nothing. I don’t know where I will go now” says Khayelitsha occupier

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News | 23 March 2020

Human Rights Commission asked to look at farm job losses and evictions

Seasonal farm worker says she was dismissed without full pay and told: “It’s because of the virus”

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News | 23 March 2020

Covid-19: Housing activists call for halt to evictions

“The current business as usual response … does not consider the communicable nature of Covid-19”

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News | 21 March 2020

PE community leaders blame mayco member for failed relocation

MMC for Human Settlements Andile Mfunda under fire but standing firm

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News | 20 March 2020

Tensions high in informal settlement after child is electrocuted

Riemvasmaak residents plan action after the funeral of Royden Plaatjies

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News | 19 March 2020

Covid-19: Here’s what occupations in Cape Town are doing in response to the pandemic

Woodstock Hospital is well prepared, but occupiers at Central Methodist Church and Helen Bowden Nurses Home are at great risk

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News | 19 March 2020

“I don’t know where I will sleep or get money to buy materials to rebuild my shack”

The City of Cape Town acted on a court order at the weekend demolishing dozens of shacks

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News | 17 March 2020

Love dispute blamed for 66 families displaced by shack fire

“We are suffering for arguments between people we don’t know” says victim

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Brief | 16 March 2020

Our farm had to evict people: It was lawful and justified

Francina Petersen was dismissed for chronic absenteeism and offered alternative accommodation

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Right to reply | 12 March 2020

Human Settlements make about turn on “poorly built” RDP foundations

116 cement slabs are to be rebuilt at Despatch housing project

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Brief | 10 March 2020