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

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…

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

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…

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3,000 Blikkiesdorp residents to be relocated

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…

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Canned in Cape Town

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…

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Dianne Ormrod Properties at 105 Roodebloem Road is a well-known gentrifier in the Woodstock district of Cape Town. Its website claims it is a family-owned establishment. We must ask how it feels for the family to make its living through the displacement and eviction of poor families out of Woodstock and to the human dumping grounds of Blikkiesdorp.

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Some time ago, this elderly gentleman — I can't remember the man's name — was in charge of the community garden in Blikkiesdorp, Delft, Cape Town. Blikkiesdorp is Afrikaans for "Tin Can Town", although more officially it is known as Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area; the nickname is more representative of the reality, with its rows-upon-rows of tin-like, makeshift housing units. I took this photo in 2013 in support of an NGO campaign, and I have not been back since. From what I hear (crime, police brutality, general disregard of human rights) nothing has improved.

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BLIKKIESDORP - NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE

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…

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