Shack dwellers flee violent persecution
Many residents of Siyakhana have fled their homes for fear of their lives. On Wednesday night, several homes were petrol bombed by ‘maphara’.
Land for housing
Housing project in Mandela Park stokes tension between backyarders and shack dwellers
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.
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 […]
“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.
Land occupiers homeless after sewage pipe burst
Land occupiers whose homes in Empolweni and Ethembeni were wrecked by the flood of sewage have appealed to the City of Cape Town for help but the City is refusing.
Human settlements MEC urges the arrest of “illegal land grab” leaders
Land occupiers promise to return to land they are evicted from as they cannot afford to rent the backyard shacks they stayed in before.
Evicted backyarders demand accommodation from the City
Not finding anyone to receive their memorandum at the Civic Centre and at Parliament, the protestors vowed to return in the next few days.
‘No plan to provide services’ to Azania Square
While the upgrading of informal settlements programme is government policy to tackle their developmental challenges, the City of Cape Town says that it will not provide services to the new settlement.
Report confirms services in Marikana are temporary
According to the report, basic services in Marikana are temporary, “anonymous and dehumanising”.
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
Land activists want speedy land reform, restitution and an end to evictions
A group of about 100 land activists marched to Parliament to demand speedy expropriation of land without compensation.
Housing organisations march for decent houses
Housing organisations marched against evictions that are a feature of the state’s response to the growing wave of land occupations around the City.
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