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Inner city residents call for an inclusive Joburg

18th Sep 2023 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

Unions and NGOs convened a meeting this Saturday to build a collective response to the housing crisis in inner city Johannesburg.

Residents of informal settlements on Cape Town’s railways ‘live in poop’

14th Sep 2023 Asive Mabula 0

Communities along Cape Town’s central line complain of inadequate sanitation and access to water as the plan to relocate them stalls.

Jagersfontein community waits in vain for compensation

12th Sep 2023 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

The Jagersfontein community say that they are worried about the snail pace to implement the recommendations of the report following the 2021 mine tailings dam collapse.

Helena Silvestre: “Occupation enables us to take part in the birth of a neighbourhood and think about new ways of living together”

10th Jul 2023 Equal Times 0

Helena Silvestre was born in 1984 in Mauá, in ‘ABC Paulista’, metropolitan region of São Paulo. She grew up in a favela, which led her […]

Their 100 problems leave Langa residents unmoved by township’s centenary

27th Jun 2023 Asive Mabula 0

As Langa celebrates 100 years of its existence, its residents are not happy with the services that they receive from the City of Cape Town.

Langa centenary nothing to celebrate for hostel residents

23rd Jun 2023 Lihle Krwala 0

Hostel residents in Langa say they are tired of empty promises of houses and failure to maintain the hostels by the authorities.

Residents unimpressed by Cape Town’s preparations for floods

30th May 2023 Lihle Krwala 0

The city has identified 46 flood-prone informal settlements across the metro and assembled a winter task team made up of 25 city departments and external partners under the leading role of the Disaster Risk Management Centre.

Housing imbizo just another talkshop say residents of informal settlements

13th May 2023 Asive Mabula 0

The general sense in the room was that the imbizo was little else than a talkshop and residents of informal settlement told the housing minister that they are tired of empty promises.

Ordinary working people are being priced out of Accra and pushed into inadequate housing

8th May 2023 Equal Times 0

Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn’t need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of […]

Corruption of Cape Town’s housing waiting list being investigated

28th Apr 2023 Asive Mabula 0

The Housing Assembly is taking on a campaign for an alternative and public housing waiting list.

Qolani sues the City of Cape Town for R1,4- million

8th Feb 2023 Mzi Velapi 0

Residents of particularly informal settlements founded on vacant land during the 2020-2022 lockdown, say that they are subjected to constant harassment by law enforcement officers.

Backyarders in Stellenbosch want houses or might occupy the golf course

24th Nov 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Stellenbosch backyard dwellers declare that they have exhausted peaceful engagement with the municipality

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