The Temporary Relocation Area erected in 2007, has become a haven for crime, gangsterism and squalor. The smell of faeces from buckets that are makeshift toilets permeates the air for the 7 000 plus ...

A HANDFUL of former AWB stalwarts are living peacefully beside black neighbours in a notorious relocation camp for the homeless in Cape Town. Blikkiesdorp, with its trademark corrugated iron ...

“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 ...

Fearing for their lives, at least 22 people have moved from Blikkiesdorp and into the Central Methodist Mission Church in central Cape Town. This includes eight children, the youngest being six months ...

A man was shot dead in Blikkiesdorp, Kamesh on Thursday, November 10. Police spokesperson, Col. Priscilla Naidu, said that at approximately 11:40, SAPS Kamesh members attended to a complaint of a body ...

Families who fled Blikkiesdorp last week have sent a lawyer’s letter to the City of Cape Town to ask the authorities to find alternative accommodation for them, or else they will take the matter to ...

Children squint as wind whips the grey sand into their faces. A teenager braves the flies and stench of a leaking outdoor toilet to draw water from a standpipe. He stares vacantly along regimented ...

A man with discoloured skin — dying alone in a shack of Aids — speaks volumes about conditions in Blikkiesdorp, described as a ”dumping ground” for unwanted people in Cape Town. Set up in the Cape ...

The residents of Blikkiesdorp have been battling ACSA and the City of Cape Town over uncertainty regarding their future, particularly with respect to plans for upgrading the airport near their homes.