Housing

Declare disaster zone, pleads flood victim in Port St Johns informal settlement

“The municipality promised us RDP houses in a safe place, but more than five years later we’re in the same situation”

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News | 29 April 2019

Elevators at City of JHB retirement home have not worked for months

Some disabled residents are unable to leave the floor they live on

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News | 27 April 2019

Protesters burn Khayelitsha health facility

“The clinic helps us with tests for chronic diseases. Now we will have to travel long distances to other areas to get treatment”

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News | 26 April 2019

RDP house flooded every time it rains

“I was better off staying in the shacks”

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Brief | 26 April 2019

Red Ants demolish 110 shacks in Dunoon

About 500 land occupiers lose their homes

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News | 25 April 2019

Buy or expropriate the land, Marikana shack dwellers tell City

“In a big and beautiful city like Cape Town I don’t expect this kind of life”

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Brief | 24 April 2019

Protest after informal settlement flooded in Durban

Councillor promises to act after residents call for disaster relief

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Brief | 24 April 2019

Evicted families stuck in Paarl caravan park for a year

Municipality says its emergency housing project was halted by community resistance

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News | 24 April 2019

Strand protesters threaten to disrupt elections

Protest follows picket by property owners last week

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News | 24 April 2019

We’re lucky to be alive, says Durban flood survivor

Xolani Ngubo’s shack collapsed on him and his family while they were sleeping

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News | 23 April 2019

Strand property owners protest against land occupation

Dispute over future of SANRAL land

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News | 19 April 2019

JHB manager tells SAHRC of difficulties developing Alexandra

Inquiry follows spate of protests in township

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News | 19 April 2019

Housing list sparks protests in East London

Police use tear gas and rubber bullets to quell two days of demonstrations in Nompumelelo township

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News | 18 April 2019

Evicted family spend three weeks on R44 roadside

“They are unemployed and in desperate need of funding so they can buy food”

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Brief | 17 April 2019

Families left in shipping containers for 12 years

22 Langa families were moved out for a hostel upgrade in 2006

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Brief | 17 April 2019

Communicare leadership cleared of corruption allegations

Social housing company releases findings of investigation and dismisses staff members

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News | 12 April 2019