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.
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.
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.
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 […]
The Housing Assembly is taking on a campaign for an alternative and public housing waiting list.
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.
Stellenbosch backyard dwellers declare that they have exhausted peaceful engagement with the municipality
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.
Funeral arrangements are underway for a homeless man who was shot and killed by a City of Cape Town law enforcement officer.
These are some of the stories we brought you in 2021. Expect more to follow in 2022.
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