At the dawn of democracy in South Africa over 30 years ago, the country had to right some big wrongs. The Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) was one such tool, by offering ...

The City of Johannesburg’s plans to audit the occupants of RDPs and social housing, in the name of restoring law and order and addressing the housing crisis, has been criticised as a waste of ...

A 78-year-old woman says she has spent three decades waiting for an RDP house while paying rent from her pension.

Minister of Human Settlements, Thembi Simelane, has addressed the hot topic of foreign nationals living in RDP houses, which in law are meant for economically disadvantaged South African nationals. In ...

After months of unlawful occupation, illegal residents of Sihlahliwe RDP houses were forcefully evicted by the red ants on March 11. Local families who have been waiting for years expressed relief, wh ...

For six years, Johanna Mthethwa, 29, and her five siblings have been living in a cramped shack in Olievenhoutbosch Extension 60, struggling to make ends meet after their mother's passing. But their ...

South Africa has a housing supply backlog of at least 2.2 million units, with a significant shortage in the affordable housing or “gap market”, according to a recent study by the Centre for Affordable ...

Johannesburg — ON AUGUST 10, the North West human settlements department issued a media release - "RDP house turned into a tuckshop - Mohono acts," which described how the North West human settlements ...

Theirs is one of more than 20,000 Breaking New Ground (BNG, formerly known as RDP) houses in the province that are incomplete, says Zimasa Mbewu, spokesperson for the Free State Department of Human ...

The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements has called on the Department of Human Settlements to work with law enforcement agencies to arrest and prosecute criminals who sell RDP houses. The ...

Toloko Mofokeng and Monyaduwe Tshabalala have waited since 2011 for their RDP house. Mofokeng’s left hand was permanently damaged in a stabbing incident. Tshabalala’s leg was amputated after an ...