Housing

Housing activists interrupt council meeting

Protesters demand outcome of investigation into sale of prime City-owned land to GrowthPoint

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Brief | 30 May 2019

How expropriation without compensation works in Alexandra

A xenophobic mob is kicking people out of their homes

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Feature | 30 May 2019

Residents want City to speed up housing plans in Strand

Evicted land occupiers have been staying in community halls, which means many social grant recipients have had to spend much more money on transport to get their grants at alternative venues

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Brief | 29 May 2019

Seven Zimbabwean teenagers have been living under a tree for almost a year

“This municipal bin is our soup kitchen”

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News | 27 May 2019

Law enforcement moves against Vrygrond land occupiers

Residents claim they were not shown court order before their shacks were demolished

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Brief | 25 May 2019

Farm workers march to Constitutional Court over land and working conditions

“We want to have our own piece of land so that we can do something for ourselves like growing gardens or sheep farming”

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News | 24 May 2019

Invite me for coffee, Winde tells marchers

Marikana residents demand land

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News | 23 May 2019

Cape Town’s hostels to be upgraded

Built to accommodate black working men under apartheid, many are in terrible condition

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Brief | 23 May 2019

Dunoon land occupiers club together to pay for lawyer

Evicted eight times from private land

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News | 22 May 2019

Family killed by fire in RDP house

Twayisa Myathaza and her three children were the victims of a faulty electricity box, say witnesses

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News | 21 May 2019

Evicted Durban residents say City had no court order

Dozens left homeless after shacks demolished on Sunday

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News | 21 May 2019

Pietermaritzburg protesters injured by police, says village chief

Police deny anyone was hurt during dispersal of water protest

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News | 20 May 2019

Hundreds of Uitenhage residents queue for houses

Call to register on consolidated list raises hopes

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Brief | 20 May 2019

Much needed rain brings flooding to Cape Town

Disaster Management reports no major incidents

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Brief | 20 May 2019

“Everything that I worked hard for is burnt to ashes”

Over 200 left homeless by Masiphumelele fire

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Brief | 20 May 2019