Housing

“Proper shelter can change a person completely”

The City of Cape Town has relocated people to the Pickwick site close to the city centre. And it’s working.

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News | 6 September 2019

Cape Town cops assault land occupier

City says it will investigate

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Brief | 4 September 2019

Brakpan residents accuse municipality of excluding them from housing project

“They will only remove us in coffins” says protester

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Brief | 3 September 2019

Malawian family among dead in shack fire

Four die in Lwandle

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Brief | 2 September 2019

Residents give Gauteng Premier seven days to respond to demand for land

Land identified for possible housing has been standing vacant for months

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News | 31 August 2019

Khayelitsha land occupiers to square off with City in court

The group occupying land in Makhaza plan to oppose their eviction in court on 9 September

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News | 30 August 2019

Despatch housing project halted by “political tensions”

A group of residents have occupied a housing project site in a protest against their ward councillor

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News | 30 August 2019

Tensions flare at Cape housing dialogue

Gatvol Capetonian has given government 30 days to address some of their demands

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News | 29 August 2019

115 households in Despatch left in the cold while municipality and Housing Development Agency shift blame

“Every morning I wake up and sit on that cement foundation just to get the sun”

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News | 29 August 2019

Hundreds protest in Booysens Park to be moved to “safer areas”

Resident of Vastrap informal settlement have previously expressed their unhappiness with high crime rates in the area

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Brief | 28 August 2019

Evicted Klein Akker families move to state-owned farm in Stellenbosch

“We had a proper wash with privacy for the first time since we were evicted” says farm resident

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News | 28 August 2019

Fed up Eastern Cape villagers told to move shacks, promised new homes

“We watched them build proper shelters for those who came after us” says villager

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News | 28 August 2019

“We turned an unused building into a place many now call home”

“In this place there is love and care,” says Woodstock hospital occupier

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News | 27 August 2019

Is Melissa Whitehead a principled civil servant or a “cowboy”?

Her supporters say she was too progressive for Cape Town’s municipality. Her detractors accuse her of playing victim.

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News | 26 August 2019

City says it has housing opportunities in Blue Downs

Residential serviced plots available for people with a monthly income of R9,000 to R22,000

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Brief | 26 August 2019

Court orders hundreds of Kraaifontein farm dwellers to be relocated to Philippi

“The judgment doesn’t understand the reality confronting the people of Klein Akker Farm” says community leader

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Brief | 23 August 2019