Housing

No sign of Makhado mayor’s promised housing

Two months before the end of the financial year, work on the sites has not begun

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Brief | 27 March 2019

Housing activist killed in occupied Cape Town building

Former SWEAT official Ayanda Denge stabbed in Helen Bowden Nurses’ Home

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News | 26 March 2019

Week of housing protests at Sir Lowry’s Pass

Residents say their area is neglected and their councillor ignores them

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News | 26 March 2019

Residents burn down Alra Park police station

Claims of race discrimination in housing allocation

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News | 25 March 2019

Human Rights Day protesters demand better housing

Activist calls for investigation into EThekwini Municipality officials, while in Cape Town Reclaim the City occupied a golf course

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News | 21 March 2019

Farm workers march to Parliament demanding moratorium on evictions

Call for President Cyril Ramaphosa to keep promise he made in 2014

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Brief | 20 March 2019

Cape Flats residents protest for houses

Protesters demanded to see MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and then burnt tyres when he did not address them

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News | 20 March 2019

Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers

City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report

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News | 20 March 2019

Cape Town women’s group pools money to build houses

It’s a stokvel with a difference

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Brief | 19 March 2019

Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive

“The City will never help us until we protest.”

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News | 18 March 2019

Masiphumelele shack dwellers threaten to occupy land if City doesn’t give dates for new houses

Plato blames De Lille for making promises to community. De Lille says: “He’s talking nonsense.”

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News | 18 March 2019

Cape Town shack dwellers march for RDP houses

“As long as each family has a tap, a toilet, and a box of electricity, we will be happy.”

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News | 15 March 2019

Life in Woodstock Hospital

An abandoned state-owned property has become home to over 700 people

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Photo Essay | 15 March 2019

Ten eviction attempts but land occupiers rebuild in Tembisa

“I was in shock. I didn’t expect them to be so brutal”

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News | 15 March 2019

SANDF refuses to re-accommodate immigrants it evicted in Marievale

“They want to break my family apart,” says evictee

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News | 14 March 2019

Traditional affairs office burnt down in KZN

“Barbaric act” believed to be by land occupiers angry over government crackdown, says MEC

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Brief | 14 March 2019