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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 ...
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The Department of Transport is celebrating the reopening of the Chris Hani (Khayelitsha) to Cape Town rail line after five ...
Seven informal settlements in the Cato Crest area in KwaZulu-Natal were damaged by heavy rain, three of which were completely destroyed. This was announced by the eThekwini Municipality ...
The final CMO configurations will be verified by employing ‘causal loop thinking’ to map the bigger picture of how the different ... public-sector facility in a periurban community in Cape Town, South ...
She was one of many people living in Cape Town's informal settlements to have their shacks destroyed ... Roofs were blown off in Belhar, Strand, Khayelitsha, Woodstock and Claremont. "The City's ...
Some informal settlements in Emfuleni Local Municipality are reeling from the collapse of service delivery, as they mark four months without their portable toilets being cleaned. Picture ...
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 ...
A woman has died in a fire that ripped through more than 20 dwellings at the Effingham informal settlement ... St. Johns in the Eastern Cape. KZN Department of Human Settlements spokesperson ...
Ayanda Ziqethu, 29, from Port St. Johns in the Eastern Cape, was burnt beyond recognition in the blaze at the Sim Place Informal Settlement. Initial estimates suggest that 21 dwellings were ...