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How lottery has affected housing programme in most parts of Africa today.
news

How lottery system has affected housing programme in Ethiopia

Drakenstein municipality
News

Drakenstein municipality heads to Supreme Court of Appeal over emergency housing

Kariega
South Africa

Kariega shackdwellers threaten to move into housing project

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

How lottery system has affected housing programme in Ethiopia

Drakenstein municipality
News

Drakenstein municipality heads to Supreme Court of Appeal over emergency housing

Kariega
South Africa

Kariega shackdwellers threaten to move into housing project

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.

Gauteng housing
Gauteng

Gauteng Govt ‘fails’ to meet almost ALL of its housing targets

By Weekend News Producer03-04-2022 17:32

0 out of 19!
The Gauteng Department OF Human Settlements is being SLAMMED for failing to meet its own housing targets for the year.

Military veterans gauteng
News

Gauteng government provides 500 new houses to military veterans

By Siseko Gwegwe20-10-2021 11:11

A total of 500 military veterans have big smiles after picking up brand new keys to houses in Carltonville, West of Gauteng.

tiny home
Lifestyle

Home is where the pod is: You can now build a house for under R500k

By Mia Russell02-02-2021 14:57

Can’t afford to buy a house? It’s time to think outside the box, with containers and pod units providing a nifty, budget-beating alternative.

Mpumalanga stolen property
News

Four bid evaluation committee members arrested for housing project fraud

By Andrea Chothia19-12-2020 14:13

Four committee members from the Housing Development Agency were arrested by the Hawks in different parts of Johannesburg on Friday.

Social housing cape town
News

Will social housing projects in central Cape Town be cancelled?

By Andrea Chothia04-12-2020 13:54

Information has been circulating that social housing projects in central Cape Town will be cancelled. Is there any truth to it?

siberia russia tomsk wooden houses
Lifestyle

Siberia’s treasured wooden houses face uncertain future

By AFP14-10-2020 22:02

Some 2 900 kilometres east of Moscow, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia, founded in 1604 on the banks of the river Tom.

Housing subsidies
News

Three categories of housing subsidies now available in the Western Cape

By Andrea Chothia07-10-2020 15:41

The Western Cape Department of Human Settlements has made available three categories of housing subsidies to assist the most vulnerable.

Mosebenzi Zwane
News

Former Free State MEC Mosebenzi Zwane unaware of Housing Act

By Andrea Chothia26-09-2020 12:18

Mosebenzi Zwane testified about the Free State Housing Project at the State Capture Commission on Friday 25 September.

Tourism regulations
News

Sisulu ‘studying’ report into Limpopo’s R2.4 million shack saga

By Thabo Baloyi26-08-2020 13:23

The Limpopo government came under fire for the multimillion rand shack project, prompting Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu to enter the fray and launch a probe

Tourism regulations
News

Limpopo’s R2.4 million shack saga: Sisulu is ‘dissatisfied’

By Thabo Baloyi07-08-2020 08:29

Lindiwe Sisulu said a review on the project is being undertaken by the National Home Builders Registration Council, an agency of the Department that oversees quality assurance of all human settlements projects

Limpopo shacks
News

Limpopo premier distances himself from R2.4 million shack scandal

By Thabo Baloyi04-08-2020 18:07

It’s understood that the provincial government forked out an estimated R60,000 for each shack.

Lindiwe Sisulu cONSTITUTION
News

Sisulu strongly cautions against illegal land occupations

By Thabo Baloyi01-07-2020 15:59

Earlier in June, dozens of families in Pretoria were forced to endure the chilling weather on the streets after they were thrown out of a block of flats they had illegally occupied

Eersterust protest
News

Watch: Unrest in Eersterust as angry residents protest over lack of housing

By Andrea Chothia24-06-2020 16:49

Residents said it’s time to return the land to the people of Eersterust.

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