Housing

Attitudes towards land occupations have to change, say researchers

Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa has released a series of reports on informal settlements

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Brief | 29 July 2019

Residents of apartheid-era shack town still have no electricity or toilets

“Government has chosen to forget us”

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News | 26 July 2019

Police raid Woodstock Hospital, arrest 40 people and release them

Residents allege they were dealt with violently and the police had no warrant

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News | 25 July 2019

People flock to live at Pietermaritzburg dump site

“This has become a home for many of us”

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News | 25 July 2019

Short of money and desperate, Khayelitsha residents start land occupation

“Sometimes we sleep on empty stomachs because we have no food”

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News | 24 July 2019

“We don’t grow plants, we grow people”

Streetscapes’ urban gardens offer people living on the streets a way to reintegrate with society

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News | 24 July 2019

Gauteng wants blanket court interdict on land occupations

Human Settlements MEC briefs South African Human Rights Commission after protests in Alexandra

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Brief | 23 July 2019

In April their homes were destroyed by a flood. Now their new homes are being demolished

Dozens of Enkanini residents continue to rebuild their homes in defiance of the eThekwini municipality

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News | 23 July 2019

SANDF soldiers accused of terrorising immigrant shack dwellers

“The soldiers said it was just a teaser of what they will do to the rest of Happiness Village residents”

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News | 23 July 2019

Newcastle residents say coal mine puts them in danger

Informal mining is causing houses to crack

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News | 22 July 2019

Child dies in shack fire while mother was out keeping neighbourhood safe

17-month-old Kungawo Mondile died on Tuesday night in Bobani Village

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Brief | 19 July 2019

100-year-old man gets a house after waiting 22 years

Dipabalo Boy Mohedo and his wife Johanna Nsibande were presented with their new home on Mandela Day

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Brief | 19 July 2019

Family living along R44 in Paarl buy a house

The family plans to move to Wellington at the end of July

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News | 19 July 2019

The land is “unsuitable for habitation” says municipality, but thousands live on it

Sikiti informal settlement in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, was established over 20 years ago

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News | 19 July 2019

Latest study finds over 6,000 people living on the streets of Cape Town

Mayor Plato says there is a need for more safe spaces for homeless people

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Brief | 18 July 2019

Old Brakpan residents, removed under apartheid, demand land

“The houses we were allocated in Tsakane are low in value compared to land in Brakpan … It is only fair that we are returned”

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Brief | 16 July 2019