Housing
Western Cape’s housing policy open for public comment
The province has set out guidelines for its municipalities
By James Stent
Analysis | 20 May 2021
Elderly woman forgotten during Covid relocation
Municipality can’t say why 74-year-old Nontombazana April did not benefit from a municipal housing programme last year
Brief | 19 May 2021
Ekurhuleni “dumps” evicted families in dilapidated church for two years
The City says a team will revisit the site to assess the living conditions
News | 18 May 2021
Unfinished RDP houses a crime den in Nyanga
“These houses have been like this for ten years if not more”
News | 18 May 2021
Wynberg’s unwanted hounded homeless
“Everyone wants a place to put their head down” says community leader
Brief | 14 May 2021
Graves “desecrated” for land occupation in Pietermaritzburg
“We grew up knowing that we must respect the dead. What is happening here is heartless” says widower
News | 13 May 2021
Government buys farm in Ventersdorp for evicted farm workers
The families have been living in community halls after spending nights on the roadside with their belongings
News | 13 May 2021
“Go and ask the trees for votes,” frustrated shack dwellers tell politicians
Residents of informal settlements in Gqeberha told the land cannot be developed because of indigenous vegetation
News | 13 May 2021
78-year-old Limpopo granny says she doubts she’ll ever see her promised house
Councillor says construction will start “soon”
Brief | 12 May 2021