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Insecure: Florah Tshezi, Lorraine Nair and Libarty Mutyanaviri (above) are among about 100 people who live in the Hawaii East and Central blocks of flats. (Lyse Comins/M&G)

Social housing tenants face eviction

Residents claim they bought their flats through instalment sales but decades later the properties have been sold on auction to be developed

Neglected: Residents of social housing development Sondela Village in Gauteng have been forced to pay for refuse to be removed. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Hijackers seize R118m state social housing project

The development, which consists of more than 400 units, is deteriorating after having been taken over by ‘illegal’ landlords

More than 200 tenants of Jay Singh housing programme flats are being kicked out every month. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Phoenix evictions continue despite eThekwini title deeds resolution

More than 200 tenants of Jay Singh housing programme flats are being kicked out every month

More than 200 tenants of Jay Singh housing programme flats are being kicked out every month. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Victory in sight for Durban social housing tenants

eThekwini council wants the issuing of title deeds completed within two months

Decisions: The coalitions the ANC choose to form seem likely to shape which way the South African economy will go. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Phoenix residents demand Ramaphosa release SIU graft report

The social housing investigation was handed to eThekwini municipal manager and the presidency last year

Tenants’ associations want regulator to enforce its cap on eThekwini social housing rentals. (Getty Images)

Court action looms over eThekwini social housing rentals

Tenants’ associations want regulator to enforce its cap on rentals

Minister of Human Settlements Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. (Jeffrey Abrahams)

Bathabile Dlamini one of the axed in major housing entity shake-up

Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appoints new boards because the structures were ‘wracked with infighting, rapid and frequent leadership changes, poor governance, corruption and loss of…

Umgeni water board overhaul imminent

Water and housing entities are likely to see political appointments reversed after the cabinet reshuffle

Lindiwe Sisulu
(2004-09; 2014-18
and 2019-21). (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Sisulu’s multimillion-rand housing ‘corruption’ headache in the Eastern Cape

National treasury and SIU flag gross misconduct in minister’s department with no heads rolling as millions keep disappearing

SIU moves on eThekwini housing scam

The developer allegedly secured illegal funding from the housing regulatory authority

Bathabile Dlamini (Oupa Nkosi)

Sisulu to face Parliament on Bathabile’s new job

The minister of human settlements, water and sanitation, who put Dlamini in the job on November 5, has 10 days to respond to parliamentary questions

Guess who’s back: Bathabile Dlamini is back in public office. She’s the new chairperson of the Social Housing Regulatory Authority interim board. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Bathabile’s back – as head of the housing board

The president of the ANC Women’s League, takes control of the housing board with effect from November 1

Muzaniel Abrahams and his family camp outside Steenvilla social housing apartments after being evicted from the complex about a month ago.

Evictees’ lives turned inside out

Winter arrived with force in Cape Town this week, and for some the driving rain adds to the suffering that comes with being evicted