Bush toilets and bucket water for occupiers of RDP houses and their rightful owners
Lack of basic services is at the centre of discontent in two East London settlements.
Land occupation
Fight over RDP homes in East London
The seven-year-long fight over ownership of RDP houses continues with no end in sight.
Not a tap nor a toilet for the 200 people living in this Cape Town informal settlement
The private owners of the land will not apply to the City of Cape Town for services to be extended to the occupants and are applying for their eviction. The Human Rights Commission says new government policy requires the city to provide services.
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.
Backyarders in Stellenbosch want houses or might occupy the golf course
Stellenbosch backyard dwellers declare that they have exhausted peaceful engagement with the municipality
Residents of newly occupied settlements demand basic services
Residents of newly occupied areas in Cape Town struggle to maintain a dignified life without water, electricity and sanitation services.
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.
Backyarders still determined to fight for housing
It has been six days since the occupiers of Arcadia Place were evicted and living on the streets outside the building in Observatory.
Delft backyard dwellers demand housing
Eindhoven backyarders say that they will not allow the housing project to continue if they are not going to benefit.
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
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