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Housing

Stun grenades, arrests but no beds for homeless students at CPUT

12th February 2025 Vincent Lali 0

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

13th November 2024 Chris Gilili 0

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?

29th October 2024 Chris Gilili 0

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

17th September 2024 Vincent Lali 0

Eskom has promised to install electricity but is scant on details.

City of Cape Town evicts homeless people

16th August 2024 Chris Gilili 0

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

1st August 2024 Lilita Gcwabe 0

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

11th July 2024 Mzi Velapi Vincent Lali 0

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

9th July 2024 Vincent Lali 0

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

8th July 2024 Chris Gilili 0

“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!’

27th March 2024 Chris Gilili 0

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

14th March 2024 Vincent Lali 0

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

13th February 2024 Vincent Lali 0

Activists used the opportunity to comment on the Draft White Paper on Human Settlements to call for policy changes.

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