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“People die waiting for a house,” says backyarder from Hanover Park

The Western Cape’s housing department is pleading with people who are currently on the housing waiting list to be patient.

The protest combined community-based including Reclaim the City, the Movement for Care, the Social Justice Coalition, the Housing Assembly, Singabalapha and Ndifuna Ukwazi, all in the spirit of demolishing the by-laws that they claim to be anti-poor.

District Six occupation: ’Find us alternative accommodation before we move’ By Okuhle Hlati Share Cape Town – The Social Liberals for Backyard Dwellers (SLBD), a group who have occupied parts of land in District Six earmarked for restitution, have vowed to only move from the area when alternative accommodation has been made available for them. Earlier this month, the City approached the Western Cape High Court to urgently interdict people who intend to unlawfully settle on the land which has been earmarked for District Six claimants. The court granted the City an interim order ...

City of Cape Town says its hands are tied in removing occupants from District Six land By Mthuthuzeli Ntseku Share Cape Town - The City said the Covid-19 regulations and two court cases continue to negatively impact its powers as a landowner and enforcer of by-laws to remove occupants from the District Six restitution land. This after the City obtained an urgent court order to interdict future land invasions in the area. However, the order does not entitle the City for the purposes of evicting occupants from the property or demolishing any occupied structures. As of March 31, 99 informal stru...