Shack dwellers in Khayelitsha endure another winter flood
Severe winter flooding has left families in Cape Town’s informal settlements cold, homeless, and desperate.
Housing
Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners
Lack of basic services is at the centre of discontent in two East London settlements.
Fight over RDP homes in East London
The seven-year-long fight over ownership of RDP houses continues with no end in sight.
Stun grenades, arrests but no beds for homeless students at CPUT
Hundreds of CPUT students are still without accommodation while the university says its residences are full.
Extortion rackets and City delays keep residents in the dark for almost a year
Housing MMC says electrical contractor finished their contract and the next one will be appointed at the end of November.
Activists ask: What happened to land reform?
The lack of decent housing in Cape Town and other parts of the country is a problem the government seems reluctant to solve.
RDP homeowners without electricity for a year
Eskom has promised to install electricity but is scant on details.
City of Cape Town evicts homeless people
Homeless people say the shelters are like a prison, filthy and a death trap.
Dying to live: Residents of Ga-Molekana village live in fear of mining operations
Human Rights Commission report finds that mining by Anglo American Platinum affects the rights of villagers in Limpopo.
A week of misery for informal settlement residents
The South African Weather Services has issued a level 8 warning for the Western Cape.
Storms and flood waters devastate Cape Town’s informal settlements
Photos of Monwabisi Park in Khayelitsha and Covid Village in Mfuleni show the miserable conditions of their residents as storms lash the Western Cape.
City of Cape Town to remove homeless people from city centre
“We believe that this decision will only further marginalize and traumatize an already vulnerable population”
– Homeless Action Coalition
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