Cape Town - By December 20 Cape Town had recorded the highest number of informal settlement fires in the Western Cape in 2021, as Fire Rescue Services responded to more than 2 200 fires in ...

Did you know that there are 437 informal settlements in the City of Cape Town alone? Of those settlements ... of 340 households per settlement. The map looks at a number of challenges faced ...

Cape Town - Climbs the wooden steps ... roofs of the thousands of shacks in the Enkanini informal settlement – the biggest such area in Khayelitsha and home to 60 000 people, more than live ...

The number of people who have moved to Cape Town in search of opportunity, coupled with a critical shortage of available land, has meant that informal settlements are sometimes too dense for the ...

In 2014, the Khayelitsha Commission found that in Cape Town some of the highest crime ... crimes are largely confined to the sprawling informal settlements on the Cape Flats and absent from ...

Urgent support is mobilised as winter fires devastate informal settlements in Cape Town, displacing over 120 residents and ...

A fire in the Kosovo informal settlement in Philippi‚ Cape Town‚ on Saturday night ... ravaged the informal settlement of Silver Town‚ Khayelitsha‚ in the early hours of Saturday.

Residents of Siyahlala informal settlement‚ in Khayelitsha‚ have started to install their own water pipes. “We can’t ask the City of Cape Town to give ... where we show them things we ...

CAPE TOWN - A fire ripped through the Taiwan informal settlement in Khayelitsha on Wednesday. The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management teams have established a joint operations center in ...

Families in Endlovini informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, will have to wait to have their electricity faults repaired after Eskom withdrew its services from the area. Eskom made the ...

Informal settlements in Philippi, Strand, Gugulethu, Mfuleni, Masiphumelele and Khayelitsha are flooded, said Charlotte Powell, City of Cape Town Disaster Risk Management spokesperson. She said ...

CAPE TOWN - Over 2,000 residents of informal settlements have been displaced by floods in the Western Cape. Heavy downpours wreaked havoc in Masiphumele, Bloekombos and Khayelitsha.