This is the latest in a series of attacks on this group of land occupiers since August
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 November 2023
They say the sand is damaging their shacks. The City of Cape Town says the affected households will only be relocated in 2024
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 November 2023
Electricity theft has left Nomsa Maphongwana Primary School in Mandela Park with a Eskom bill of more than R167,880
By Vincent Lali
News | 15 November 2023
Service provider withdrew after threats at gunpoint and extortion attempts
By Sandiso Phaliso and Vincent Lali
News | 9 November 2023
“We sleep with our kids on our plots because we don’t want other residents to build their own shacks on them”
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 3 November 2023
Frustrated victims then occupied vacant land nearby
By Vincent Lali
News | 30 October 2023
Violence and tensions between land occupiers and backyarders has been brewing for months in Khayelitsha
By Vincent Lali
News | 26 October 2023
Western Cape mops up after devastating floods
By Vincent Lali and Ashraf Hendricks
News | 26 September 2023
Man dies, apparently from electrocution
By Vincent Lali and Peter Luhanga
News | 25 September 2023
Western Cape health department says a mobile clinic for medical collections, disease screenings and family planning is in the pipeline
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 22 September 2023
Shack dwellers say City of Cape Town is slow to respond to complaints
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 21 September 2023
Siyakhana shack dwellers accuse Mandela Park residents of attacking them
By Vincent Lali
News | 5 September 2023
City says NERSA’s 15% tariff recommendation would lead to a shortfall of R500-million for 2023/24
By Vincent Lali
News | 28 August 2023
Hours spent every week removing invasive water hyacinth and rubbish
By Vincent Lali
News | 24 August 2023
The existing State Land Disposal Act could be used to fast track the use of public land for human settlement
By Matthew Hirsch and Vincent Lali
News | 23 August 2023
Nearby backyarders hope for houses, though the City of Cape Town says the land is “lost” for housing
By Vincent Lali
News | 18 August 2023