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Housing allocation in Cape Town

Housing project in Mandela Park stokes tension between backyarders and shack dwellers

23rd October 2023 Asive Mabula 0

Mandela Park Backyarders are adamant that the housing project should benefit their community while the City of Cape Town insists units will be allocated according to the housing waiting list.

Corruption of Cape Town’s housing waiting list being investigated

28th April 2023 Asive Mabula 0

The Housing Assembly is taking on a campaign for an alternative and public housing waiting list.

Shack dwellers allocated then denied houses

13th October 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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