Housing
Part of informal settlement under water for a week
Khayelitsha residents say they need help to clear the water
Text by Mary-Anne Gontsana. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 19 July 2021
Homeowners in North West still waiting for electricity five years on
Ditsobotla Local Municipality says it has applied to Eskom for the electrification of 49 homes
News | 19 July 2021
Gqeberha community blame high water bills on the municipality’s failure to fix faulty pipes
“If the municipality had fixed the problem earlier my water bill wouldn’t have accumulated”
News | 19 July 2021
Shack dwellers under Potsdam Bridge play cat and mouse with City
Municipality puts in rocks, families remove them
Brief | 13 July 2021
Alexandra was already “a ticking time-bomb” says SAHRC report
As protest returns to Alexandra, activists say nothing has changed after 2019 protests
News | 13 July 2021
Fire kills one man and destroys 200 shacks in Cato Manor
Residents say this is the third devastating fire in eight months at Marikana informal settlement
Brief | 9 July 2021
Housing for informal settlement near Cape Town airport on hold
Province waiting for tests on aircraft noise, but resident says they have been living there since the 1990s and have not gone deaf
Brief | 9 July 2021
Siqalo shack dwellers want solar power
Residents are asking the City of Cape Town to subsidise a model they say worked in Stellenbosch
News | 8 July 2021
Makeshift church takes in flood victims in Bloekombos
Nomava Mboniswa offered her zinc church structure after she saw images of the flood on TV
By Vincent Lali
News | 8 July 2021