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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 April 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 February 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 November 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

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

Shack dwellers allocated then denied houses

13th October 2022 Vincent Lali 0

Three families who were allocated houses in Forest Village in Eerste Rivier want answers from the MEC for human settlements after they discovered that ‘their’ houses are occupied.

Homeless man killed by City cop to be buried on Saturday

19th January 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Funeral arrangements are underway for a homeless man who was shot and killed by a City of Cape Town law enforcement officer.

2021 – The wrap

15th December 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

These are some of the stories we brought you in 2021. Expect more to follow in 2022.

EC municipalities squander millions on sub-standard building projects

18th November 2021 Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 0

Construction companies with questionable track records continue to rake it in.

3 shelters for Joburg’s 15,000 homeless

10th November 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Homeless people complain that they cannot afford the R8 entry fee charged at the Kotze Street shelter which belongs to the City of Johannesburg.

Alex hostel dwellers bemoan basic services

8th November 2021 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

Hostel residents in Alexandra township have been decrying lack of services at the hostels since 1994.

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