Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners
Lack of basic services is at the centre of discontent in two East London settlements.
Informal settlement
Cape Town’s central line reopens
R1.3 billion spent to restore rail corridor suspended in 2019 due to land occupations and vandalism.
Protest leaders arrested as tensions grow in Covid Village
Protesters allegedly burned down shacks belonging to residents not joining the protest action.
Shack dwellers from Khayelitsha protest in Cape Town
As winter creeps in, residents of informal settlements in Khayelitsha protest for basic services.
Informal settlement residents protest for basic services on Human Rights Day
The protest by Social Distance informal settlement started on Wednesday after electricity disconnections.
Shack fire leaves hundreds homeless in Khayelitsha
Strong winds, density of the shacks and the slow response of emergency services make the fires more damaging.
Activists ask: What happened to land reform?
The lack of decent housing in Cape Town and other parts of the country is a problem the government seems reluctant to solve.
Residents of Shaka’s Head march against evictions
Over 2,000 people will be affected by the eviction of Shaka’s Head
informal settlement.
PHOTOS | Riverlands flood damage
The local municipality supports the motion of a class action law suit against the owners of the failed dams, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development.
Riverlands families still picking up the pieces a month after dam burst
An investigation by the Department of Water recommends that the dam owner be held accountable for the disaster.
Frustrated Khayelitsha residents march to demand Eskom re-open service centre
In June, Eskom announced the closure of their customer service centre in Khayelitsha, to be replaced by ‘pop-up offices’, a decision that Khayelitsha residents reject.
PHOTOS | Informal settlement residents bear the brunt of Cape floods
Residents of informal settlements have been the hardest hit by the heavy downpours, cold, and gusty winds that have engulfed parts of the Western Cape Province for the past two weeks.
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