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multi-billion rand
gauteng

Multi-billion rand housing project stalls as shack dwellers demand services

Khayelitsha families
Cape Town

Khayelitsha families want asbestos roofing removed

District Six
Cape Town

District Six: Families fight eviction by the new owner

multi-billion rand
Gauteng

Multi-billion rand housing project stalls as shack dwellers demand services

Khayelitsha families
Cape Town

Khayelitsha families want asbestos roofing removed

District Six
Cape Town

District Six: Families fight eviction by the new owner

How lottery has affected housing programme in most parts of Africa today.
Business and economics

How lottery system has affected housing programme in Ethiopia

By The Conversation16-05-2023 14:49

Housing programme in some parts of Africa has been faced by various problems that have remained unsolved for decades now.

Salt River residents voice concerns over housing development
Cape Town

Salt River residents voice concerns over housing development

By Ground Up15-05-2023 15:12

The Salt River community in Cape Town recently came together to engage in a crucial discussion regarding the City’s development plans.

Pregnant immigrants
Gauteng

Pregnant immigrants are being turned away from Joburg clinics

By Ground Up09-05-2023 11:19

Pregnant women who are immigrants are being turned away from some clinics in Gauteng, in spite of a court ruling

councillor remains behind bars
News

Cato Crest life gets worse as ward councillor remains behind bars

By Ground Up08-05-2023 16:39

For a year, families living at Cato Crest informal settlement near Mayville, Durban have not had a ward councillor

World Trade Centre
Johannesburg

Joburg’s World Trade Centre families win an eviction reprieve, only to lose their possessions in a fire

By Ground Up04-05-2023 13:15

About 100 people who have been living in Johannesburg’s World Trade Centre face an uncertain future after a fire devastated the buildings.

Disabled people in Musina lack adequate housing
Limpopo

Disabled people in Musina lack adequate housing

By Ground Up03-05-2023 10:14

Associations representing disabled people in Musina, Limpopo, have raised concerns over the lack of houses adapted to their needs.

Melissa Gwarimba
Limpopo

Melissa Gwarimba lives in a ditch with her four months old son

By Ground Up28-04-2023 10:31

Melissa Gwarimba came to South Africa ten years ago from Zimbabwe and just wish the Musina municipality would provide bathrooms

Drakenstein municipality
News

Drakenstein municipality heads to Supreme Court of Appeal over emergency housing

By Ground Up26-04-2023 12:53

The municipality says its housing policy for poor rural and farm dwellers “is more generous than other municipalities in the Western Cape”

Kariega
South Africa

Kariega shackdwellers threaten to move into housing project

By Ground Up20-04-2023 13:40

About 160 electricity poles stand on vacant sites in Kariega, next to bungalows built during the Covid pandemic

No progress on Umbhayi housing development in Tongaat
Durban

No progress on Umbhayi housing development in Tongaat

By Ground Up06-04-2023 13:29

There has been no progress on the huge Umbhayi housing development in Tongaat, north of Durban, since the contractor left the site in 2021.

Families lose hope for proper housing at Amaoti Transit Camp
Durban

Families lose hope for proper housing at Amaoti Transit Camp

By Ground Up04-04-2023 16:14

Families living at the Amaoti Transit Camp north of Durban say they have lost hope that they will be moved to proper housing.

Calls for release of military land for Cape Town housing crisis
Cape Town

Calls for release of military land for Cape Town housing crisis

By Ground Up31-03-2023 17:28

Calls are mounting for the release of 668ha of underutilised, well-located military land to help relieve Cape Town’s housing crisis.

Swartland
Western Cape

Swartland law enforcement demolish shacks on land earmarked for housing development

By Ground Up31-03-2023 12:52

About 250 people attempted to occupy land reserved for the De Hoop housing development in Malmesbury Swartland

eThekwini
News

Nearly a year after the floods, eThekwini villagers are still hoping for help

By Ground Up24-03-2023 14:02

Nearly a year after the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal, some families in eThekwini say they have still not received any help.

Nearly 600 families share 8 toilets at a temporary relocation area
News

Nearly 600 families share 8 toilets in a temporary relocation area

By Ground Up17-03-2023 09:10

People living in about 600 units at Barcelona Two temporary relocation area in Lamontville, Durban, have had to share eight portable toilets.

Khoisan occupation
Western Cape

No money for water and toilets at Khoisan occupation

By Ground Up08-03-2023 12:03

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, which owns the land, plans to have a meeting with the community later this month

Tsotsi star’s luxury house
Johannesburg

Tsotsi star’s luxury house built with Lottery money fails to sell at auction

By Ground Up02-03-2023 15:36

Terry Pheto’s Bryanston property seized by the Asset Forfeiture Unit was expected to sell for more than R4-million but did not get an offer

Johannesburg
Lifestyle

Johannesburg to launch R10 billion beach living

By Siseko Gwegwe21-02-2023 13:27

Who needs to leave Johannesburg for Durban or Cape Town when a beach experience can be built? Check out this development.

social housing
News

Social housing in South Africa is in trouble

By Ground Up10-02-2023 12:52

Rising costs and stagnant grants imperil the only government-backed effort to undo apartheid spatial planning

The Supreme Court
Cape Town

Court finds Cape Town’s emergency housing unconstitutional

By Ground Up06-02-2023 15:02

The City of Cape Town’s emergency housing programme is not unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled.

Simon’s Town land claimants return
Property

Forcibly removed 60 years ago: Simon’s Town land claimants return

By Ground Up27-01-2023 13:20

60 years after they were forcibly removed to Gugulethu by the apartheid regime, families are returning to Simon’s Town.

Brickvale RDP housing project
News

Brickvale RDP housing project receives R1 BILLION

By Ground Up29-11-2022 19:31

The Mogale City mayor says the Brickvale RDP housing project is back on track at a cost of R1 billion after years of delay.

Affordable housing plan in Cape Town.
News

Affordable housing plan in Cape Town: Where are we on that?

By Ground Up14-11-2022 16:17

Three years ago human settlements Mayco Member Malusi Booi said the City of Cape Town would develop an affordable housing policy.

Communicare lost an eviction case.
News

Communicare: Magistrate accused of bias in eviction case

By Ground Up10-11-2022 07:29

Social housing company Communicare lost an eviction case in August this year and is now alleging the magistrate was biased.

Gauteng housing
News

Gauteng government backtracks on housing ‘mega project’ promise

By Ground Up02-11-2022 18:37

Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has cancelled housing plans due to “land invasions” and a shortage of suitable land.

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