How Cape Town's governance failures exacerbate the plight of informal settlements and what urgent reforms are needed to ...

WHEN African policymakers, development organisations and financial institutions talk about the need to formalise Africa’s informal economy ... VSLAs or rounds and in South Africa, stokvels.

The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance (CAHF) has emphasised prioritising the informal market when determining ... a household should be able to afford a house that is between two and three ...

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a warning for heavy rainfall across Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, with the ...

Families were stranded, homes were submerged ... affecting urban centers in the Global South. At least 1 billion people worldwide live in slums and informal settlements without formal access ...

court houses and Frelimo party offices. In one town they broke open the prison and set scores of inmates free. Several times protesters have closed the main border crossing with South Africa.

This struck me again during a recent visit to Hangberg (Hout Bay), where Mayor Patricia de Lille and I turned the first sod for the new Council rental flats on what is arguably the most beautiful ...

The department has also warned those who bought sites and built informal houses, or houses at the site that they are regarded as illegal occupiers and will “ultimately lose those properties”.