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House of cards: Despite constitutional assurances of gender equality and the right to housing, women find themselves up against patriarchal norms, unequal treatment under customary practices and little protection from the law. Photos: Seri
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’

UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes

  • Umamah Bakharia
5 min read
Kosta and Sharyn Kassimatis said they used to visit family at Paradise Park from 1987, until they bought a home there six years ago. “We can’t expect anyone from the camp to help us move because they’re in the same predicament,” said Kassimatis. Photo: Marecia Damons
COMMUNITY DISPLACEMENT

Last 100 Paradise Park residents in Hermanus evicted

A decade-long battle to stave off eviction has come to an end

  • Marecia Damons
4 min read
File photo of a homeless man sleeping on a Cape Town road.
ALTERNATIVE HOUSING

Court ruling ordering alternative housing for homeless in Cape Town is welcomed

The city agreed to amend shelter rules to make them more humane and compliant with the Constitution

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
CLIMATE ACTIVISM

Encounters with Palestine and the environment

These subjects take centre stage at a festival showcasing nearly 50 documentaries

  • Charles Leonard
9 min read
Gauteng’s top police brass are leading an operation near the Goudkoppies landfill site where bodies have been piling up, with nine murders in the past two weeks
ELDORADO PARK

Nine dead: Police descend on lawless ‘Lapland’ at Goudkoppies landfill

The police operation coincided with the discovery of another four bodies near the site on Johannesburg’s Golden Highway on Wednesday morning

  • Tunicia Phillips
5 min read
The eviction order served to the Gumede family after they were evicted.
ANC

Shadow of eviction looms over farm dwellers

In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction

  • Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni
7 min read
Camps Bay home where housing activists are staging a protest. (David Harrison/M&G)
AIRBNB

The young and the rentless: Inside Camps Bay’s ‘hijacked’ mansion

An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town

  • Lester Kiewit
5 min read