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An informal settlement in Cape Town is flooded after heavy rains. Picture: @CityofCT/Twitter

Informal settlements

CoCT officials working to lessen effect of winter flooding in areas at risk

By Lauren Isaacs

Informal settlements in low-lying areas are most at risk. Every year, areas in Khayelitsha, Philippi and Mfuleni are left waterlogged following heavy rains.

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    CoCT monitoring reports of flooding in informal settlements

    Some of the affected areas include Sir Lowry's Pass, Lwandle, Gugulethu, and Khayelitsha.

    334 days ago
  • Picture: Eyewitness News.

    Driftsands informal settlement fire claims the lives of two women

    The blaze broke out at around 2 am on Thursday.

    373 days ago
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    Several CT informal settlements left flooded after heavy rainfall

    These include Gugulethu, Khayelitsha, Philippi, Delft, Macassar and Kuils River.

    632 days ago
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    Residents from CT informal settlement evacuated after river burst its banks

    Heavy rain has caused the Eerste River to overflow at Sandvlei in Macassa during the early hours of Saturday morning.

    686 days ago
  • FILE: The remains of an informal dwelling following a fire. Picture: Eyewitness News

    Two people die in fire that destroyed three homes in Vrygrond, CT

    The blaze broke out earlier on Saturday.

    728 days ago
  • FILE: Government authorities in the province, and Premier Sihle Zikalala,say they have their own long-term housing programmes which will resume after the national lockdown. Picture: EWN

    KZN has plan outside Sisulu's informal settlement de-densification strategy

    Premier Sihle Zikalala said the province was carrying on with its own programme, outside of the national department's de-densification plan, and it had alerted Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.

    767 days ago
  • Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News

    Sisulu outlines preliminary plan for relocating informal settlements residents

    The plan, which has been presented to Parliament, follows undertakings by Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu that the dwellers would be moved to temporary structures in the coming weeks.

    767 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed soldiers at the Doornkop army base on Thursday night ahead of the national lockdwon. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    Is it even possible to lock down townships and informal settlements, asks Prof

    Professor Alex Broadbent questioned why the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the same globally while contexts, particularly in Africa, are different.

    790 days ago
  • Juju Valley, an informal settlement in Polokwane, Limpopo. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: The COVID-19 curse and informal settlements

    How are we going to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in informal settlements when the social and health needs of these populations are so often invisible, asks Haji Mohamed Dawjee.

    807 days ago
  • FILE: An eviction unit uses chainsaws and crowbars to demolish shacks. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    'They demolished everything': CT informal residents speak out after eviction

    Families living on the privately-owned land, called Klein Akker, were kicked off the property this week.

    1011 days ago
  • FILE: 10 shacks caught alight on 25 June behind the Helen Joseph Hostel in Alexandra. Picture: Jacob Moshokoa/EWN

    Joburg Emergency Services monitoring informal settlements as cold weather hits

    A cold front has been forecasted for Gauteng, causing a significant drop in temperatures.

    1022 days ago
  • The R557 in Ennerdale main entrance has been blocked by protesting residents. Picture: Edwin Ntshidi/EWN

    Zakariyya Park protesters claim authorities opened fire on them

    Residents in Zakariyya Park and Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg on Friday said they were tired of the recent mushrooming of informal settlements in their areas.

    1044 days ago
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    SERI: Residents in informal settlements often fend for themselves

    The organisation launched the data on informal settlement looking at the norms and practices.

    1057 days ago
  • Police Minister Bheki Cele at a justice, crime prevention and security cluster briefing on the elections on 13 May 2019. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter

    Policing in informal settlements in the spotlight again after attack on officers

    Two hundred officers have been deployed to Philippi where six anti-gang unit members were shot and wounded on Wednesday morning.

    1080 days ago
  • FILE: The Setswetla informal settlement in Alexandra near the Jukskei River. Picture Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    CoJ set to treble budget to electrify informal settlements

    Finance MMC Funzela Ngobeni will present his budget speech, totaling expenditure of R58 billion for the 2019/2020 financial year.

    1102 days ago
  • FILE: Remains of a mattress following a shack fire. Picture: EWN.

    [LISTEN] Can shack fires be prevented?

    Director at Ikhaya Lami Andrea Bolnick says there are solutions for disasters like the recent blaze that gutted Khayelitsha, leaving dozens displaced.

    1312 days ago
  • FILE: The HRC visits former farm workers who were forcibly evicted from a farm in Dec 2015. The 23 families now live in Newrest in Wellington. Picture: Monique Mortlock/EWN

    Farm evictions in WC spurring growth of informal settlements, says NGO

    There are more than 1,000 pending farm eviction cases in areas under the Drakenstein Municipality in the Cape, of which 434 are currently in court.

    1463 days ago
  • FILE: The Juksei River after it flooded. Picture: EWN

    Joburg EMS monitoring rising river levels near informal settlements

    Johannesburg EMS' Robert Mulaudzi says while levels of the Jukskei River have exceeded 50%, they will not conduct emergency evacuations yet.

    1628 days ago
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