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Cold and leaking shacks: The long wait for brick houses for the people of Blikkiesdorp

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“That I still stay in a leaking shack even though the City approved my subsidy for an RDP house four years ago is absurd,” says Petronella Sebastian.

She lives in a leaking shack in Blikkiesdorp with her two children and her grandchild, GroundUp reports.

The 53-year-old woman is partially blind and deaf. She takes high blood pressure medication and receives a disability grant.

“Every…

Watch : Is Blikkiesdorp Home ? The issues around a controversial Temporary Relocation Area | FUTURE CAPE TOWN

“The only thing we say to city or government or whoever  is : listen, if you want to move us, move us in proper houses.”  Is Blikkiesdorp Home? explores the several issues the residents of Blikkiesdorp are facing and their struggle to have access to more information concerning a future relocation.   Blikkiesdorp is a temporary…

3,000 Blikkiesdorp residents to be relocated

On May 19, 2016, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille announced that municipality is working on plans to secure two pieces of land for qualified beneficiaries from Blikkiesdorp and surrounding areas. However GroundUp reported on June 10 that now only one piece of land is available. Blikkiesdorp was built as a short-term housing solution in 2007 as temporary solutions to relocating residents from…

Canned in Cape Town

Thanks to Lester September: “‘South African Townships By Drone’ is a series of drone videos with the aim of raising awareness of the living conditions in Cape Town, created by the City of Cape Town. This is where the City of Cape Town threatened to relocate elderly Capetonians and families living in South Road, Wynberg. This is where mostly so called “coloured” Capetonians are being dumped by the…

The scene is set for an occasion of music with the intention of creating adequate funding for the construction of a library and recreational facility in the ‘makeshift’ living area known as Blikkiesdorp, situated in the new Symphony section of Delft in…