Housing

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

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