Thousands of people still living on Cape Town’s Central Line

Words and picture: Sandiso Phaliso / GroundUp Thousands of shack dwellers are still living...

PRASA settlement to double in size in spite of problems with water and sanitation

Picture and Words: Sandiso Phaliso / GroundUp The number of families living on land...

Cape Town’s railway occupiers are being moved but there are snags with water and sanitation supply

Picture and Words: Sandiso Phaliso /GroundUp Scores of families who have been relocated from the...

City of Cape Town invites public comment on Prasa’s rezoning proposal

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) and its implementing agent, the Housing...

Almost 4 000 households still to be moved off Cape Town railway land

While immediate intervention to resume the rail service along Cape Town’s Central Line to...

Affordable housing for over 1000 residents coming to Goodwood

Tenanting is on the horizon for the City-enabled Goodwood social housing mega-project, set to...

Ten years after GroundUp revealed her plight, a disabled woman and her autistic son are still living in a tiny shack with no electricity or sanitation

In 2013 GroundUp visited Leticia Mbuka and her autistic son Musa Pani in their...

Tenants of flagship Langa housing project mark township centenary in squalor

Cracked walls, leaking ceilings, no ventilation and spreading mould are a few of the...

Calls mount for unused military and state land to be released for housing

The housing crisis in Cape Town could be considerably reduced if underutilised land, currently...

City and Prasa to negotiate how to get Metro Rail’s Central Line reinstated

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has had trouble getting railway routes...