Housing
Murder charges dropped against activists after six months in prison
Abahlali BaseMjondolo says police and politicians are trying to silence them
Brief | 29 September 2021
Failed RDP project leaves 71 households with toilet buildings but no houses
Eastern Cape government departments pass the buck and kill the project in bureaucracy
News | 29 September 2021
Mamelodi flood victims want City to honour promise to relocate them
City of Tshwane says it is busy acquiring land and planning a new township in Pienaarspoort
News | 28 September 2021
Duncan Village residents chase away government officials
Residents upset that officials were accompanied by people affiliated to the ward councillor who they say has neglected them
News | 22 September 2021
700 shacks demolished by Makhado municipality using an interim court order
Land occupiers say the municipality broke its 2018 promise to build them RDP houses and now it is auctioning off the land
News | 20 September 2021
How to buy an affordable home in the Western Cape
Finance Linked Individual Subsidy will no longer be dependent on bond approval
Opinion | 20 September 2021
There have been nearly 1,200 shack fires in Cape Town this year, claiming over 80 lives
The City used to provide kits swiftly for fire victims but the end of a grant means that SASSA has taken this over, and help comes much slower
By Vincent Lali
News | 16 September 2021
Gqeberha families have been housed on land polluted by methane gas, but municipality won’t explain what’s going on
Mayco member tells GroundUp reporter to “Google methane gas”
News | 15 September 2021
How a determined community is fighting the army’s attempts to evict them
Happiness Village’s residents fear for their lives and face unlawful evictions, beatings and intimidation, legal action and shack demolitions
Feature | 9 September 2021