Housing

Immigrants targeted in Alexandra housing battle

Vigilantes accused of throwing families out of RDP housing

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Feature | 21 February 2019

Shackdwellers’ homes destroyed on Valentine’s Day

City of Cape Town says shacks were unoccupied but residents disagree

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News | 20 February 2019

1,000 families move onto vacant land as mayor freezes evictions

Residents name settlement “Bobani Village” after Nelson Mandela Bay mayor

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Brief | 20 February 2019

Buffalo City mum on its shoddy RDP houses

Residents say they occupied the poorly built, incomplete houses after they had stood empty for six months

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News | 15 February 2019

Hundreds left homeless after shack fire in Dunoon

People have lost everything in the fire, but luckily there were no fatalities

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Brief | 15 February 2019

Vredenburg community to get new homes after protests

Saldanha Bay Municipality says protest damage came to R10 million

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News | 11 February 2019

Living on a dam wall

Shack dwellers in Dunoon have occupied the edge of a dam

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News | 8 February 2019

Court gives Hermanus occupiers till June to oppose eviction

Over 4,000 people now occupy privately owned land in Schulphoek

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News | 5 February 2019

Woman can’t keep the dog that saved her life

Scotty rescued Nonzame Vuyi in a shack fire in Cape Town; now he may have to be sent to the Eastern Cape

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News | 5 February 2019

Mushroomville waste pickers avoid eviction, for now

“It’s not an easy life but I have to do it to support my family back home”

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Feature | 4 February 2019

SANDF appeal against evicted Marievale residents dismissed

Pretoria High Court says application lacks merit and orders army to pay costs

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Brief | 1 February 2019

Activist leader Axolile Notywala arrested

Residents of informal settlements demand sanitation in protest aimed at Mayor Dan Plato

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News | 31 January 2019

We will occupy any open land, vow backyarders

Backyarders complain that they are not given the same opportunities as people living in informal settlements

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News | 31 January 2019

Evicted from their home, farmworker’s family camp in an old clinic

Sanna Syster lost her rights to her house when her husband died

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News | 30 January 2019

Glebelands hostel murder case postponed

Police officer and his co-accused are alleged to have murdered nine men

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Brief | 28 January 2019

School hit with half-a-million rand water bill

Neighbours tapped into school’s supply

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News | 28 January 2019