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Cissie Gool House

Cape Town's Cissie Gool House is a global model for community resilience and empowerment

Maverick Citizen

Cape Town's Cissie Gool House is a global model for community resilience and empowerment

By Visiting Housing Activists

Hope for Woodstock Hospital occupiers as rights groups, City find common ground

South Africa

Hope for Woodstock Hospital occupiers as rights groups, City find common ground

By Matthew Hirsch

Cape Town's Cissie Gool House residents reveal what sets their unlawful occupation apart from building hijackings

South Africa

Cape Town's Cissie Gool House residents reveal what sets their unlawful occupation apart from building hijackings

By Tamsin Metelerkamp and Suné Payne

This week — Food Safety Day, Universal Basic Grant dialogue and men's mental health

South Africa

This week — Food Safety Day, Universal Basic Grant dialogue and men's mental health

By Naledi Sikhakhane

Occupiers of former Woodstock hospital left rattled by police raid

Maverick Citizen

Occupiers of former Woodstock hospital left rattled by police raid

By Daniel Steyn

Cape Town still far behind in providing well-located affordable housing, say activists

South Africa

Cape Town still far behind in providing well-located affordable housing, say activists

By Tariro Washinyira

Residents of Cape Town’s Cissie Gool House left traumatised by police raid days after fire

South Africa

Residents of Cape Town’s Cissie Gool House left traumatised by police raid days after fire

By Marecia Damons

WC government and City of Cape Town trapped in a legal game of spatial injustice over landmark Tafelberg judgment

South Africa

WC government and City of Cape Town trapped in a legal game of spatial injustice over landmark Tafelberg judgment

By Kyla Hazell

Activists oppose bid to survey Woodstock Hospital occupiers

South Africa

Activists oppose bid to survey Woodstock Hospital occupiers

By Liezl Human

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

South Africa

Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock

By Steven Robins

Reclaim the City’s Cape Town occupations are opportunities, not threats

South Africa

Reclaim the City’s Cape Town occupations are opportunities, not threats

By Björn Herold, Christine Borgvold Naaby Hansen, Margaux De Barros and Matthew Michael Wingfield

Reclaim the City say City of Cape Town is wrong to blame them for its own failures to provide social housing

South Africa

Reclaim the City say City of Cape Town is wrong to blame them for its own failures to provide social housing

By Karen Hendricks and Ndodana Hadebe