Chalk inscriptions still mark Voortrekker Street in Ficksburg’s Market Square where Andries Tatane died.
While giving the city a much-needed facelift, the social model appears to have limited impact in solving the city’s housing backlog.
Things had to go wrong for them to go right for the controversial rapper.
The threat of mass evictions has been lifted from residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement.
A cellphone clip of police brutalising a resident during the Ermelo uprising backs up torture claims.
Residents housed in Jo’burg’s temporary shelters fear a steady return to dereliction.
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/ 28 February 2011
<b>Kwanele Sosibo</b> and photographer <b>Oupa Nkosi</b> visit Wesselton township in Ermelo in the aftermath of recent violent protests.
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/ 18 February 2011
Residents of defunct buildings are commanding national headlines and casting an embarrassing spotlight on Johannesburg’s running battles with the poor
In Johannesburg’s Diepsloot the backyards of RDP houses are a maze of shacks that far outnumber the formal structures in whose shadow they stand.
Trevor Ngwane weighs in on the inaugural Conference of the Democratic Left at Wits University last weekend.