Housing

Women march against evictions in Drakenstein

“Share the land with those who work on it”

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Brief | 6 March 2020

Marikana occupiers reach landmark agreement with property owners

Showdown in Supreme Court of Appeal averted

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Law | 6 March 2020

Circus occupiers picket for housing

Occupiers are expected back in court next month

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Brief | 6 March 2020

Community leaders warn of violence and conflict over land in Port Elizabeth

Residents of two informal settlements and a backyarder group are at each other’s throats over allocation of serviced sites

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News | 4 March 2020

Racial tension over housing project

Residents from Arla Park have occupied RDP houses built for people in Snake Park informal settlement

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News | 3 March 2020

Activists occupy Rondebosch Golf Course, demand land redistribution

“We will come back to build our shacks here”

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Brief | 29 February 2020

Addo shut down by protests

Residents of one of the area’s oldest informal settlements want houses, electricity, tap water, toilets and passable roads

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Families demand speed bumps after car crashes into house

Pietermaritzburg road has been the scene of many accidents

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Charges against Women on Farms director withdrawn

Colette Solomon was arrested during an anti-eviction protest

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News | 27 February 2020

Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement

Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn

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Brief | 26 February 2020

Paraplegic man dreams of having a house

Lwando Sigaqa lives in a shack in Taiwan informal settlement

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News | 26 February 2020

Khayelitsha shack dwellers block busy road

Protesters want serviced sites but City of Cape Town says shacks were illegally erected on its land

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Brief | 25 February 2020

Couple dies in shack fire in Kraaifontein

Wallacedene shack dwellers say they had no water to extinguish the blaze

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News | 25 February 2020

Abahlali marches in support of land expropriation

“We want government to give us title deeds for the land that we are already occupying”

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News | 24 February 2020

Violent protests in PE over failure to relocate shack dwellers

“The residents have been flooded with empty promises by human settlements officials” says ward councillor

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News | 21 February 2020

Farm worker challenges authorities in court over housing

Municipality and province accused of not meeting constitutional obligations

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News | 20 February 2020