DURBAN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five years ago Ndabo Mzimela was evicted from a cramped backyard shack in Durban to make way for the construction of subsidized government housing.

This story originally appeared in Peoples Dispatch on Aug. 23, 2022. It is shared here under a Creative Commons license. 28-year-old Lindokuhle Mnguni, the twice-imprisoned chairperson of the eKhenana ...

South African human rights activist Sibusiso (S’bu) Innocent Zikode is being awarded the 2021 Per Anger Prize. Zikode's work centres on the right to home, land and survival for the most impoverished ...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in some 46 of South Africa’s informal urban settlements, Ngwane’s probing study focuses on local governance structures called amakomiti, the Zulu word for “committee.” ...

KEMPTON PARK, South Africa — The last of more than 2,000 squatters left a barren patch of land outside Johannesburg on Friday after authorities demolished all but one of their makeshift shacks. A ...

St. Petersburg High student, the granddaughter of a liberal South African politician, is a glimmer of hope for a primitive "shack school" in a poverty-stricken township. More than 7,000 miles due ...

The production and abandonment of surplus people also depends on rendering them as improper political subjects. In the prevailing political discourse, poor people’s struggles are deemed less than ...

Five years ago people were evicted from their shacks in Durban to make way for housing for members of the African National Congress DURBAN, South Africa, Nov 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Five ...