By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Torrential rains in the Congolese capital Kinshasa in early April brought devastating floods that ...

A new book documents how young people in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg use social ties to find ways ...

On Saturday 19 July the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) hosted a public hearing on the findings of a week-long social audit on the janitorial service for communal flush toilets ...

Khayelitsha, meaning ‘New Home’ in isiXhosa, is a place of vibrant contrasts. It’s a community where informal settlements stand ... themselves in the real Cape Town. For many years, the ...

Notywala is a member of two of Cape Town’s sub ... to residents in informal settlements and more than R250 million a year on waste collection services in greater Khayelitsha alone.

Metropolitan municipalities, such as the City of Cape Town, also raise a ... Go to any informal settlement in Khayelitsha today and I will show you these apartheid service standards.

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 ...

Today, the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) release the report of the social audit on janitorial services for shared communal flush toilets in Khayelitsha ... lives of informal ...

informal settlements on the edge of South Africa's second biggest city. Thousands have been displaced in the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town after strong winds destroyed ...

The morphology, geography and elevation profile of Cape Town appeared to also affect the temperature distribution. According to the heat map ... the Informal Settlement Network (ISN) in Khayelitsha.

“We were queuing by 4 in the morning,” she told me at her home in Khayelitsha, a township in the flatlands outside Cape Town ... in the townships and informal settlements where poor ...

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 ...