Housing

New Sea Point skyscraper to include affordable housing

Planning tribunal approves new apartment block

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Brief | 13 March 2019

JHB waste pickers face routine harassment

“A lot of people don’t appreciate what we are doing for them”

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Feature | 12 March 2019

Residents won’t let councillor return until their RDP houses are repaired

Office of Uitenhage ward 45 councillor shut since July 2018

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News | 11 March 2019

Cato Crest residents block roads after shack demolitions

Abahlali baseMjondolo leader says protesters were not their members

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Brief | 7 March 2019

Shoddy RDP house never fixed

“I have been in prison, not once, not twice, but many times. But here I am living on an unfinished house,” says struggle veteran

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Brief | 7 March 2019

“We won’t vote” say Khayelitsha shack dwellers

“Because I have no land or house, I feel as if I’m a foreigner.”

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News | 7 March 2019

Fire leaves hundreds homeless in Overcome Heights

Luckily no injuries were reported following Monday night’s blaze

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Brief | 5 March 2019

Activists battle property company over right to protest

Reclaim the City opposes interdict granted to Growthpoint Properties

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News | 5 March 2019

Green Point fire could have been contained say residents

A lack of water and access roads hindered efforts to douse shack fire in Khayelitsha

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News | 4 March 2019

Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay says hands off Uitenhage land occupation

Over 200 shacks erected in Khayelitsha with ward councillor’s support

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News | 1 March 2019

20,000 people at risk of eviction on Drakenstein farms

“We aren’t going anywhere!” says resident

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Feature | 1 March 2019

Six years and government house still not finished

Thembeka Mpete has been waiting since 2013 for a contractor to finish building her home

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News | 28 February 2019

RDP house on sale for R1.7 million

Risky purchase says property consultant

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Brief | 25 February 2019

Land alone is not enough

If municipalities fail to supply services, communities cannot properly use their land

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Opinion | 25 February 2019

Eastern Cape residents must make way for taxi rank

Second time in four years that the people of Bhekela informal settlement will be moved

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Brief | 22 February 2019

Toilets overflow and taps run dry in Enkanini

Residents vow to continue protesting until the problem is fixed

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News | 21 February 2019