Housing

100-year-old man gets R10,000 donation after GroundUp story

“Now we will not go hungry anymore”

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Brief | 9 May 2019

Tembisa land occupiers win court case against municipality

Each occupier will receive R1,500 in damages

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Law | 7 May 2019

Durban strike leaves township without water and electricity

Residents have to stand in long queues for water and some complain that their food has rotted

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News | 6 May 2019

Attempt to shut down parts of Khayelitsha blocked by police

Mandela Park housing project halted due to factional disputes by backyarders

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Brief | 3 May 2019

Housing activists occupy Green Point bowling club

Reclaim the City builds concrete wall on bowling green in civil disobedience protest

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News | 1 May 2019

Huge shack demolition in Johannesburg

We will not vote if this is how we are treated, say shackdwellers

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News | 30 April 2019

Deadline for families facing eviction from Noordhoek land

Landowner Judy Sole offered each family R35,000

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News | 30 April 2019

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