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Residents of Ramaphosa informal settlement in Emfuleni are living through a deepening sanitation crisis, with portable toilets teeming with maggots, water taps running dry, and rubbish piling up ...
five informal settlements in Alexandra are set to benefit from the city’s informal settlement electrification plan, including Alex Ward 107 informal settlement, Iphutheng School informal ...
Limpopo police spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba explained that the incident occurred on Tuesday morning at Juju Valley informal settlement, near Polokwane, when residents reportedly attacked ...
‘Every time a rat passes by inside my shack, I fear that those killers have come to kill me too,” these are words of one of the night patrollers at the Marry Me Informal Settlement in ...
Four community patrollers were killed, and eight others injured, in an attack in the Marry Me informal settlement in Soshanguve, Gauteng, during the early hours on Saturday morning. In a gruesome ...
The Salvokop precinct development project in Pretoria has encountered a problem: Residents of the Baghdad informal settlement refuse to clear out. Salvokop residents gathered to discuss the forced ...
An informal settlement earmarked for development is in its third decade of a fight to be formalised. Residents of Slovo Park informal settlement have been promised dignified housing since the mid ...
Around 200 structures have been razed to the ground by an early morning blaze that tore through the Ekuphumleni informal settlement in Du Noon. A number of homes were destroyed in a fire at the ...
Two people died in Cator Manor in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, after the severe rain that the province experienced The Nkanini informal Settlement in Cator Manor experienced flooding, and an 18-year ...
JOHANNESBURG - A fire has raged out through Zolweni Informal Settlement in Dunoon, near Milnerton. Firefighters are on site, battling the blaze as strong winds are exacerbating its spread.
‘City of Desire - An Urban Biography of the Largest Slum in Bangladesh’ is Dr Shafique’s detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. It combines local stories with ...
About 150 shacks at Kenville informal settlement were gutted on Wednesday afternoon Hundreds of people were left homeless after about 150 shacks at Kenville informal settlement in Durban were ...