March 15
South Africa: How to Spend 12 Years Building a Police Station
Minister Sihle Zikalala has promised the Vuwani police station will be completed in 2025. Work on it started in 2012. Read more »
February 26
South Africa: Bheki Cele Accuses Randfontein Protesters of Being a Construction Mafia
Eleven people to apply for bail after being arrested on 13 February Read more »
January 31
South Africa: Housing Project for 500 Dunoon Families Put On Hold
Western Cape government revising its plan and budget Read more »
January 12
South Africa: City of Cape Town Rental Flats in Poor Condition
Mayco member says the City has to manage 45,000 units and prioritises repairing them based on safety Read more »
December 07, 2023
South Africa: The Informal Brick Makers of Dordrecht
"We are only working to put food on the table, nothing else" says Tinashe Mandobe who has made bricks in the small Eastern Cape town since 2004 Read more »
October 31, 2023
South Africa: Housing in South Africa - How Have We Done Since 1994?
We've made progress but the quality of the data is poor, especially the latest census Read more »
October 09, 2023
South Africa: Joburg City to Blame for 'Dark Buildings' Crisis Say Property Owners
Albert Street fire tragedy sparks renewed attempt to evict hundreds of people living in derelict downtown buildings Read more »
June 27, 2023
South Africa: Free State Municipality's R15-Million Unused Sport Stadium
The stadium in Lindley has stood for over a year and has been vandalised Read more »
South Africa: Khayelitsha Residents Fed Up With Years of Delays in Housing Project
Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 "housing opportunities" will only begin next year Read more »
June 14, 2023
South Africa: R83 Million and Three and a Half Years Later Only One RDP House to Show for It
Namibia Stop 8 Housing Project in Inanda started in 2019 and was meant to deliver hundreds of houses Read more »
May 26, 2023
South Africa: R26-Million Lehae Library Opens Seven Years After Construction Started
Concerns over safety remain after armed robbery weeks before opening Read more »
May 22, 2023
South Africa: Bulldozers Clear Way for Mine in Lower Zambezi National Park
Tourism body warned that this would threaten species and actually lose money for the Zambian economy Read more »
April 06, 2023
South Africa: Children Are Dying From Izinyoka Electricity While Tongaat Families Wait to Be Housed
Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project Read more »
March 24, 2023
South Africa: Tensions Brew Between Coloured and Black Communities in Nigel Over Housing Occupation
"Our government has succeeded in dividing us as a people because we are now fighting against each other because of the mess it created" Read more »
March 07, 2023
South Africa: Six Years to Renovate a Police Station and It Still Isn't Finished
Two construction companies have left the job incomplete Read more »
February 28, 2023
South Africa: R10-Million Wasted On Unfinished Eastern Cape Sports Centre
Now Emalahleni Local Municipality is going to fork out another R14.5-million Read more »
January 31, 2023
South Africa: Major Development Planned for Cape Town's Derelict Strandfontein Pavilion
About 1,200 residential units, including subsidised housing, as well as retail and recreational facilities are proposed Read more »
November 14, 2022
South Africa: Kariega School Opens Five Years After Construction Started
Eastern Cape Department of Education blames delays on protests Read more »
September 12, 2022
South Africa: It's Time to Flip the Housing Delivery Model On Its Head
The future of affordable housing is about the enabling state Read more »
September 01, 2022
South Africa: No Light At the End of the Tender for Eastern Cape Villages
Millions have been spent on the Sivumela project and eight years later, hundreds of households are still without electricity Read more »
July 26, 2022
South Africa: Villagers Raise R135,000 to Build Bridge Across Deadly River
Vondo villagers have been asking the Thulamela Municipality for a footbridge for over 20 years Read more »
July 14, 2022
South Africa: Woman Waiting for a House Since 1994 Hopes for a Home in Winning Way
Dunoon housing project to give homes to 1,500 families Read more »
July 07, 2022
South Africa: School Site Abandoned As Contractor Accuses Eastern Cape Education Department of Failing to Pay
Meanwhile learners at Eyabantu Senior Secondary school in Fort Beaufort are crammed into tiny temporary classrooms Read more »
July 06, 2022
South Africa: The Roof of This Primary School Is an Accident Waiting to Happen
Education department says it will refurbish Mohokone Primary in 2023/4 Read more »
April 27, 2022
South Africa: You Chose Electricity and Toilets Instead of Houses, Families Told
600 households have been hoping for houses since 1993 in Fort Beaufort Read more »