Water leaks go unfixed for weeks in Grabouw
Reporting water leakages or potholes is futile. Unless you’re a visiting news reporter.
Informal settlement
Lack of services in Grabouw’s informal settlement negatively affects women
Inadequate water and sanitation services in Siyanyanzela in Grabouw is an extra burden for women who are residents of the informal settlement. More than five […]
Delft backyard dwellers demand housing
Eindhoven backyarders say that they will not allow the housing project to continue if they are not going to benefit.
Protestors clash with police in Grabouw
A community protest to support the Oak Valley strikers has been met by police violence and threats from ‘Coloured’ workers.
Youth in Khayelitsha vote for free education and job creation
Virgin voters in Khayelitsha hope their votes will change their circumstances.
Shack dwellers and the politics of floods
According to Mqapheli Bonono of Abahlali baseMjondolo it will take the people living in informal settlements in Durban the longest time to get their lives back together again.
#AlexTotalShutDown organisers rubbish claims it is anti-poor and xenophobic
Alexandra was shutdown by protestors on Wednesday demanding that the deterioration of the township be stopped.
Shack fire victims waiting for relief
A group of about 30 residents from Blowey informal settlement in Makhaza, recently protested outside the Khayelithsa SASSA offices demanding relief in cash instead of the food vouchers they have received.
Stranded after shacks were demolished by Anti-Land Invasion unit
18 structures were demolished by the Anti-Land Invasion Unit of the City of Cape Town on open land adjacent to a ‘temporary’ settlement
Fire destroys about 30 households in Khayelitsha
Another devastating fire has left 121 people in Khayelitsha homeless.
Why, even with more access to toilets, women in a Kenyan slum avoid them
About 2.3 billion people around the world lack access to basic toilets. This leads to poor sanitation and about 280,000 people per year die as […]
Town Two fire victims struggling to rebuild their lives
It has been 23 days since the fire and residents of Silvertown informal settlement are still battling to put their lives back together. They have not received disaster funds and identity documents and birth certificates they lost in the fire have still to be replaced.
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