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Goedverwacht community fed up with Moravian Church

18th Oct 2023 Mzi Velapi 0

Goedverwatch community tell of bad service delivery from the Moravian Church of South Africa.

Cape Floods: Eleven dead and thousands homeless without help from City

6th Oct 2023 Asive Mabula 0

The recent floods in Cape Town devastated informal settlements, particularly in low lying areas that ironically offers them security from forced removal since the land is not deemed habitable.

Inner city residents call for an inclusive Joburg

18th Sep 2023 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

Unions and NGOs convened a meeting this Saturday to build a collective response to the housing crisis in inner city Johannesburg.

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.

Farmworkers speak out against evictions

14th Aug 2023 Mzi Velapi 0

The Rural Legal Centre says it deals with cases of eviction of farmworkers and families who have stayed on the same farm for more than 20 years.

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 […]

Cry of the Xcluded speaks out against poverty, unemployment and crime

6th Jul 2023 Mzi Velapi 0

The launch of the Cry of the Xcluded in the Western Cape saw activists from both sides of the railway line coming together to talk about issues affecting their communities.

Langa centenary nothing to celebrate for hostel residents

23rd Jun 2023 Lihle Krwala 0

Hostel residents in Langa say they are tired of empty promises of houses and failure to maintain the hostels by the authorities.

From checkpoints to punchlines: the emergence of Palestinian stand-up comedy

9th Jun 2023 Equal Times 0

As the night unfurls its dark veil over the towering buildings of Ramallah, the spotlights illuminate the stage of the Ashtar Theatre, casting a captivating […]

“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.

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 […]

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