Housing programme in some parts of Africa has been faced by various problems that have remained unsolved for decades now.
The Salt River community in Cape Town recently came together to engage in a crucial discussion regarding the City’s development plans.
Pregnant women who are immigrants are being turned away from some clinics in Gauteng, in spite of a court ruling
For a year, families living at Cato Crest informal settlement near Mayville, Durban have not had a ward councillor
About 100 people who have been living in Johannesburg’s World Trade Centre face an uncertain future after a fire devastated the buildings.
Associations representing disabled people in Musina, Limpopo, have raised concerns over the lack of houses adapted to their needs.
Melissa Gwarimba came to South Africa ten years ago from Zimbabwe and just wish the Musina municipality would provide bathrooms
The municipality says its housing policy for poor rural and farm dwellers “is more generous than other municipalities in the Western Cape”
About 160 electricity poles stand on vacant sites in Kariega, next to bungalows built during the Covid pandemic
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 living at the Amaoti Transit Camp north of Durban say they have lost hope that they will be moved to proper housing.
Calls are mounting for the release of 668ha of underutilised, well-located military land to help relieve Cape Town’s housing crisis.
About 250 people attempted to occupy land reserved for the De Hoop housing development in Malmesbury Swartland
Nearly a year after the devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal, some families in eThekwini say they have still not received any help.
People living in about 600 units at Barcelona Two temporary relocation area in Lamontville, Durban, have had to share eight portable toilets.
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, which owns the land, plans to have a meeting with the community later this month
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
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Rising costs and stagnant grants imperil the only government-backed effort to undo apartheid spatial planning
The City of Cape Town’s emergency housing programme is not unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled.
60 years after they were forcibly removed to Gugulethu by the apartheid regime, families are returning to Simon’s Town.
The Mogale City mayor says the Brickvale RDP housing project is back on track at a cost of R1 billion after years of delay.
Three years ago human settlements Mayco Member Malusi Booi said the City of Cape Town would develop an affordable housing policy.
Social housing company Communicare lost an eviction case in August this year and is now alleging the magistrate was biased.
Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has cancelled housing plans due to “land invasions” and a shortage of suitable land.