Housing

City interdicts Imizamo Yethu rebuilders

After violent protests by community mayor says City will commence reblocking

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News | 5 July 2017

Judge recuses himself from Woodstock eviction

Residents will continue with their complaint against acting judge Weinkove at the Judicial Service Commission

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Brief | 5 July 2017

No house yet, but here is a toilet that doesn’t work

Toilets in Uitenhage housing project were built three years before the houses and they no longer work

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News | 4 July 2017

Months after fire Hout Bay explodes

People from Imizamo Yethu who are in temporary shelters say the City must make good on its promises

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News | 3 July 2017

Woodstock residents facing eviction describe neglect by landlord

Brother of 52-year-old man who died in a fire in Albert Road two years ago says he is still traumatised by the event

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News | 29 June 2017

Eviction of homeless Loop Street immigrants was without court order

CCID and City says it has the authority; lawyers disagree

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News | 29 June 2017

Mdantsane man’s RDP house given to strangers

Thozamile Mazibukwana has spent years trying to get answers as to why he is left living in a shack

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News | 29 June 2017

Homeless people evicted from disused property in Cape Town city centre

Evictees claim they improved the place while their neighbours describe it as a “den of prostitution, crime, and drugs”

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News | 28 June 2017

Newly repaired community hall torched

City officials to meet with Joe Slovo Park leaders in a bid to end protests that started after shack demolitions

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News | 27 June 2017

Joe Slovo Park residents torch MyCiTi bus after shacks demolished

Land occupation followed removal of school classrooms

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News | 26 June 2017

No houses for residents relocated two years ago

And no answers from the municipality on Mdantsane’s abandoned housing project

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News | 26 June 2017

Police and NPA want land occupiers “punished by the courts”

Protesters accused of attacking school bus

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Brief | 23 June 2017

Second week of mass evictions and violent protests in Port Elizabeth

Police conduct 3am raid, arrest 12 and confiscate petrol bombs and tyres

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News | 21 June 2017

Masiphumelele residents question City’s compliance with court interdict

“They asked me if it was my house. I went inside but they knocked it down anyway.”

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News | 21 June 2017

“This is not a place for human beings”

Blikkiesdorp was supposed to be temporary, but residents are stuck there indefinitely

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News | 20 June 2017

Khayelitsha land occupiers granted bail

Backyarders from Town Two marched to Lingelethu police station on the weekend demanding release of six people who were arrested

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News | 19 June 2017