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Informal settlement

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.

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 […]

“We won’t move” – Khayelitsha land occupiers defy eviction order

7th Jun 2023 Asive Mabula 0

The residents of an informal settlement in Khayelitsha are refusing to vacate the land for the building of a private hospital.

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 […]

Water crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay

29th Mar 2023 Joseph Chirume 0

According to the municipality the current average level in the five dams that supply the metro is 13,27%.

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.

Families and survivors of Jukskei River drowning shocked and traumatised

8th Dec 2022 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

The rainy season regularly claims victims from among the people living on the banks of the Jukskei River in Alexandra but never have so many people drowned on the same day.

Cape Town’s toilets that are too hazardous to use

29th Nov 2022 Nobathembu Ndzengu Lihle Krwala 0

Residents of Khayelitsha’s informal settlements have to contend with communal toilets that do not flush or portable toilets they have to clean out themselves.

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

Shack dwellers allocated then denied houses

13th Oct 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.

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