Land

Protests erupt over slow relocation of PE shack dwellers

Vehicles stoned and roads closed by Vastrap, Qunu and Jaagvlakte informal settlement residents

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News | 2 October 2020

Understanding the groundbreaking Tafelberg judgment

218-page ruling orders the Province and the City to redress the legacy of spatial apartheid

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Law | 9 September 2020

Relocation of 1,500 Dunoon families postponed until at least next year

Neighbouring business owners object to relocation, say there are better alternatives

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Brief | 8 September 2020

Illegal occupations affect us all, says Mayco member

Over 300 land occupations in the Cape Town metro since January

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Right to reply | 3 September 2020

Plato accused of recruiting whites to help against “land invaders”

Mayor’s message mainly aimed at middle-class residents, say veteran social activists

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News | 1 September 2020

Deaf people lose houses to land occupation

Khayelitsha occupation divides community leadership

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News | 20 August 2020

Campaigns failing to stop farm evictions, say civil society organisations

Webinar highlights plight of women on farms, calls on President to honour promise

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News | 5 August 2020

Partially blind woman faces eviction

The owner of the shack Siphiwe Mdluli rents wants to move back in

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News | 4 August 2020

Land occupations displace initiation schools

“If they build their shacks on these sites, what will happen to their culture?”

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Brief | 31 July 2020

PE shack dwellers shut down neighbourhood

“We want to get the attention of this municipality. But if officials don’t address us we will stop all the projects in this ward.”

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News | 30 July 2020

Community leaders oppose Makhaza occupation

“I have been on the housing database for years, but I still have no house” says occupier

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News | 27 July 2020

SJC head Axolile Notywala arrested

Witness claims arrested activists were filming police but not obstructing them

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News | 24 July 2020

Two schools torched in protest for land

“They are threatening our future. This year is already hard with Covid-19” says matric student

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News | 23 July 2020

Courts thwart king’s attempt to control land

Instead R1 billion worth of restituted land will be held by community property associations, which is what its claimants want

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Law | 17 July 2020

Massive new land occupation on Cape Nature land in Mfuleni

Some families say they were displaced by flooding

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News | 14 July 2020