Housing
Parks for the people: everyone needs green spaces
Urban South Africans use what little green space is available to them very creatively, and deserve more support
By Peta Brom, Ida Breed, Kristine Engermann-Jensen, Titilope Onaolapo and Maya Pasgaard
Opinion | 25 July 2022
Families to be kicked off state farm to make way for private farmer
The fate of about 20 households hangs in the air as the Agricultural Research Council moves ahead with plans to lease the farm
By Liezl Human
News | 22 July 2022
Backyarders finish houses abandoned by contractor
But the City of Cape Town says the contractor will be back and the occupiers will be evicted
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphokazi Mnyobe
News | 21 July 2022
Gqeberha mother wants to leave the settlement where her son drowned
Residents of Waterville want to be moved from the abandoned salt pans where they live
Brief | 19 July 2022
High Court rebukes City of Cape Town for Covid evictions
City wrongly applied the remedy of “counter spoliation” to demolish shacks, judges rule
Law | 19 July 2022
We won’t move, say Driftsands families living on floodplain
About 50 shacks have been moved to a safer site
News | 19 July 2022
Cape Town’s inner-city housing programme has stalled, activists say
City of Cape Town blames “major” delays on the occupations by Reclaim the City in 2017
News | 18 July 2022
City opens criminal case against flood victims occupying community hall
About 60 Mfuleni families moved into the hall after floods in June
Brief | 15 July 2022
“Our children play in fields full of poop and pee” says protester
Hundreds of Bayland informal settlement residents block roads in Gqeberha over electricity and basic services
Brief | 14 July 2022