‘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.
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 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.
Activists used the opportunity to comment on the Draft White Paper on Human Settlements to call for policy changes.
Many residents of Siyakhana have fled their homes for fear of their lives. On Wednesday night, several homes were petrol bombed by ‘maphara’.
Cape Town has not been able to find contractors willing to risk involvement in its construction projects in Delft.
Mandela Park Backyarders are adamant that the housing project should benefit their community while the City of Cape Town insists units will be allocated according to the housing waiting list.
Unions and NGOs convened a meeting this Saturday to build a collective response to the housing crisis in inner city Johannesburg.
Communities along Cape Town’s central line complain of inadequate sanitation and access to water as the plan to relocate them stalls.
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 was born in 1984 in Mauá, in ‘ABC Paulista’, metropolitan region of São Paulo. She grew up in a favela, which led her […]
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.
Hostel residents in Langa say they are tired of empty promises of houses and failure to maintain the hostels by the authorities.