Housing
Shack dwellers demolish unoccupied shacks themselves
Khayelitsha task team is also trying to drain off sewage water
News | 10 December 2021
Deadline looms for families facing eviction from police safehouses
“Where are we going to go? Back to the community where police are treated like dogs?”
News | 10 December 2021
Limpopo woman says she was inside her shack when the municipality bulldozed it
“I rushed inside and the whole shack fell on me” says Josephine Msiza
Brief | 9 December 2021
Constitutional Court refuses damages to Ekurhuleni shack dwellers
Majority of judges say damages cannot be awarded to enforce socio-economic rights
Law | 7 December 2021
Backyarders occupy houses in Cape Town
City has “ejected” them and laid criminal charges
News | 7 December 2021
Children die in devastating Kraaifontein shack fire
Family pleads for help to bury Akhanani and Ayola Bulani
Brief | 6 December 2021
Families struggle to rebuild their homes after Khayelitsha fire
“People were crying, some were running up and down, and others just stood there in shock” says fire victim
Brief | 2 December 2021
Immigrants left out of Tshwane metro plans to relocate shack dwellers
“I have no idea where my family and I will go” says Zimbabwean man living in Pretoria informal settlement
News | 1 December 2021
Delft landlords battle as power outages chase tenants away
Eskom says illegal electricity connections and vandalism in Delft alone have cost it about R10 million since April
By Vincent Lali
News | 30 November 2021