Housing

District Six residents oppose homeless shelter on historic site

Protesters want former Tafelberg crèche to be used for a community centre instead

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News | 17 July 2023

Truck torched in Gqeberha electricity protest

Chaos on busy Addo Road

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Brief | 13 July 2023

R15-million Covid housing project ruined by fraud

Fraud accused in 2020 Talana construction case still to be brought to court

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News | 12 July 2023

Public Protector probes government’s 2022 flood relief efforts

Auditor-General recently revealed that KwaZulu-Natal only spent R251-million of the R5.8-billion budget allocated in the aftermath of the 2022 floods

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News | 12 July 2023

Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack

Oyama Meje and two adults died on Sunday night in Phola Park informal settlement fire

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News | 10 July 2023

Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest

SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha

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News | 6 July 2023

Dunoon residents battle blaze from their shack roofs

Fire destroys 50 homes, leaving families in the biting cold

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Brief | 6 July 2023

KwaZulu-Natal tornado victims hoping for rapid help

Some Inanda families lost all their possessions and their homes

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Brief | 5 July 2023

Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer

Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead

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News | 5 July 2023

City of Tshwane probes illegal suburb

Leeuwfontein has been developed without subdivision or approval by local authorities. Now residents want services

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News | 5 July 2023

Woman allocated an RDP house years ago still lives in a shack

Bomkazi Sitela’s RDP house in Mandela Park was illegally occupied

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Brief | 29 June 2023

25-year-old informal settlement still lacks basic services

GPO residents voted ANC because they believed their relocation would be delayed if they didn’t, says resident Thozama Nyathela. “We were only being fed empty promises.”

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Brief | 29 June 2023

Dozens of homes destroyed by tornado in Inanda

Human Settlements Minister promises that professional engineers will properly assess the damaged homes

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News | 28 June 2023

Khayelitsha residents fed up with years of delays in housing project

Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year

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Brief | 27 June 2023

Under water for two weeks: Cape Town’s Covid informal settlement

Residents fear disease could break out from the human waste in the water

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News | 26 June 2023

Here people collect coal dust to cook and stay warm

“What is the use of being climate conscious because this duff coal is like gold to us”

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News | 26 June 2023