Housing

Mounting pressure on families living at PE school to relocate

Principal says occupation is a threat to the survival of his school

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News | 19 February 2020

Uitenhage residents want their pothole left alone

Land occupiers use water from the pothole for bathing and boil it for cooking

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News | 18 February 2020

Fire victims relocated to waterlogged site

Survivors of a devastating blaze in December say the site they were relocated to is unsuitable and unserviced

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News | 12 February 2020

Informal settlements can be better planned

Re-blocking by NGOs is very different from “super-blocking” by local governments, argues Professor Steven Robins

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Opinion | 12 February 2020

Families in path of new road live in limbo

Since 2017, 33 families in Mushongo Ville have been expecting to be relocated

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Brief | 11 February 2020

Support for property developer angers Khoi leadership

A statement claiming First Nations support for River Club development is rejected by tribal authorities

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Feature | 7 February 2020

Families accuse City of failing to approve shack extensions

Bonnytoun residents say they are cramped because of red tape

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News | 6 February 2020

UWC students protest over lack of accommodation

SRC says there will be no classes until situation is resolved

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News | 4 February 2020

Cape Town garden changes lives for homeless people

“You have to have an ID, otherwise it is as if you don’t exist”

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News | 3 February 2020

Uitenhage protesters march on memorial service

Shackdwellers say promises of electricity have not been kept

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News | 29 January 2020

Families claim they were duped into paying R50 to get a house

But Howard Soetwater of United Homeless People’s Association says it needs money to organise

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News | 28 January 2020

Rondebosch golf club: City of Cape Town accused of subsidising the wealthy elite

But City says renewal of lease is justified

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News | 23 January 2020

Children use electricity pylon as jungle gym

Residents of PE township where four children died after playing on rubbish dump call for recreational facilities

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Brief | 22 January 2020

We have become mosquito food, say families living along filthy canal

Part of Gugulethu canal clogged with rubbish after employment dispute

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News | 22 January 2020

City of Cape Town refuses to say how many shacks were demolished at the weekend

Zweledinga informal settlement in Khayelitsha destroyed

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News | 21 January 2020

Three months after they move in, family’s RDP house burns down

Fire in Wallacedene destroys 85 homes

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Brief | 20 January 2020