Empolweni residents rebuild their houses and lives
49 of the approximately 170 families forcibly removed from Empolweni informal settlement have re-built their homes, thanks to a court ordering their return.
Forced removals
Homes destroyed in Makhaza by law enforcement
Backyarders from Makhaza who occupied land near Empolweni were evicted and their houses demolished by law enforcement.
Cape Town’s bloody gang violence is inextricably bound up in its history
When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. More than […]
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