In Kuku Town, dwellings were rearranged to face a communal courtyard - where people can gather for activities and keep an eye on their neighbors and shared facitilies.. Image Courtesy of Future Cape ...

Protesters from the 8th Avenue, Gate 7 and Olympic informal settlements blocked a section of Voortrekker Road in Cape Town on Monday morning, demanding basic services. While the City said it was open ...

CAPE TOWN, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With no running water at home, residents of Cape Town's Marikana slum trudge to public spigots with buckets and make the dash to portable toilets set up on ...

Housing lobby group Ndifuna Ukwazi says upgrading informal settlements is urgent and long overdue, but it cannot be the final goal as a humane standard of living requires integration and access to ...

A survey done by the provincial department of human settlements showed that in 2010, the Cape Town Metro had almost as many informal settlements as the rest of the entire province. There are ...

Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, Vol. 28, No. 4, Special Issue Title: More than twenty years after the repeal of the Group Areas Act: Housing, spatial planning and urban development in ...

Homes in the Marikana informal settlement have no running water so residents collect water at one of a few public spigots available to them in Cape Town, South Africa November 8, 2017. Thomson Reuters ...