Inner city residents call for an inclusive Joburg
Unions and NGOs convened a meeting this Saturday to build a collective response to the housing crisis in inner city Johannesburg.
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Residents of informal settlements on Cape Town’s railways ‘live in poop’
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Communities demand an end to loadshedding
About 500 residents of Cape Town held a speak-out a few metres away from the Cape Town city hall where the president was delivering the state of the nation address.
Qolani sues the City of Cape Town for R1,4- million
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.
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