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.
Housing
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
‘Make Cape Town’s housing waiting list public!’
Pensioners who have waited for more than 20 years for a house have lost hope of ever escaping living in backyard rooms and shacks.
Prasa promises trains for Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain by year-end
Prasa promises trains to be running on Cape Town’s busiest line by the end of the year but has yet to relocate hundreds of families who built homes along the railway during the Covid lockdown.
Government won’t build you a house, Housing Minister Kubayi tells activists
Activists used the opportunity to comment on the Draft White Paper on Human Settlements to call for policy changes.
Shack dwellers flee violent persecution
Many residents of Siyakhana have fled their homes for fear of their lives. On Wednesday night, several homes were petrol bombed by ‘maphara’.
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