Temporary shelters for evictees are packed in the inner city, but there aren’t enough low-cost rentals to house them
More than 100 000 people move to Johannesburg a year, making it impossible to address the scale of demand.
"It will take at least 30 years to resolve the housing backlog in Johannesburg, said Herman Mashaba, blaming funding cuts by the Gauteng government."
Thobekani Mpungose speaks to the Daily Vox about the challenges of being jobless and his struggle to get an education.
Gauteng human settlements MEC Paul Mashatile says preference for housing will be given to those who applied in 1994.
Protesters and police traded bricks for rubber bullets. Rocks and bricks scattered the streets where debris and tyres lay smoking.
The museum has become a white elephant, with local residents accusing the metro of “building a house for dead people” while they live in squalor.
It took the sheer presence of police Nyalas to smash apart groups of furious protesters who took over the streets of Newclare yesterday.
The housing delivery rate fell by 25% in the past five years and the backlog stands at 2.3-million, said Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.
A protester has been killed and five arrested for public violence in Sebokeng after a demonstration about a lack of housing.
Thousands of South Africans earn too much to qualify for an RDP home and too little get a mortgage. Many are losing hope.
Western Cape premier Helen Zille has told youths that government’s housing policy should do ‘a little for the many’ instead of ‘a lot for the few’.
A total of 8 700 human settlement projects are currently under way to eradicate "ugly little <i>pondokkies</i>", Minister Tokyo Sexwale says.
Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale hopes to address the housing backlog by claiming back old dilapidated buildings and making them habitable.
President Jacob Zuma said he was nearly reduced to tears when he saw a family’s living conditions in a shack he visited in Orange Farm, Johannesburg.
Tokyo Sexwale on Monday called on businesses to become involved in the government’s efforts to address the backlog of 2,1-million houses.
Providing housing was a race against time and a fight for resources, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in Gauteng on Monday.
