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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

Last 100 Paradise Park residents in Hermanus evicted

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

Gauteng co-operative governance MEC Lebogang Maile.
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Hermanus protests: ‘We have been waiting for houses for 20 years’

Residents, tired of not being heard, have taken to occupying vacant land, demanding the council supply them with water and lights

We will always remember the role that was played by the fallen hero in the liberation struggle and also in the post-1994 period, said the SACP.

‘Is fokol is nex’: The South Western side of life

A week in the life of a Soweto flâneur and the characters of the township he encounters

#LifeEsidimeni: What will the Gauteng government be forced to pay?

Evictees: Fattis was not a hijacked building, we owned property and rented legally

The City has until Thursday to file a report on the alternative accommodation for Fattis residents.

Red Ants evicting the residents of Castel Blyney near Hillbrow

Metros pay millions to ‘Red Ants’

NGOs highlight the major legal issues that are disregarded when evictions take place

Down and out: Residents of a Berea building face eviction or “temporary” relocation. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy

Judges can no longer lawfully order evictions that leave people homeless

In a landmark judgement, the Constitutional Court said that judges have an obligation to ensure that evictions will not leave people homeless

We won’t fall: Residents of Hammanskraal resist forced evictions from land they occupied.

This land was veld, now it’s ours, declare Hammanskraal residents

Residents of Hammanskraal, near Pretoria, stood their ground against forced evictions that left two people dead and thousands more destitute.

The Red Ants evict residents of Castle Blaney, near Hillbrow in the Johannesburg central business district, on a cold Monday morning. Oupa Nkosi, M&G

Homeless CBD residents abandoned after ‘disaster of massive proportion’

About 1000 Jeppestown residents are homeless after being evicted and their building burned down – and authorities have still not come to their aid.

When good property turns bad

An increase in illegal occupations of buildings is hampering inner city rejuvenation in Johannesburg.

The Children’s Radio Foundation has brought youth from Tanzania

Jo’burg residents battle Red Ant evictions

Costly "compassion training" doesn’t seem to be working on the infamous eviction crew, who are seen to have little regard for people or possessions.

People illegally occupying an inner-city building were evicted in an unconstitutional Red Ants operation

Cast out into Jozi’s streets

People illegally occupying an inner-city building were evicted in an unconstitutional Red Ants operation, leaving them homeless on the streets of Jo’burg.

Jo’burg sends in Red Ants in defiance of ConCourt

Jo’burg sends in Red Ants in defiance of ConCourt

Illegal occupiers of private properties are still being evicted without alternative accommodation arrangements despite a ConCourt ruling in December.

Jo’burg inner-city residents march over evictions

Protesting Johannesburg inner-city residents handed over a memorandum of their grievances to the ANC on Wednesday.

Six dead in Pretoria high-rise blaze

Six people have died in a fire that broke out in the Kruger Park flats in Pretoria. The fire was allegedly started to protest against evictions.