Mary-Anne Gontsana

2 weeks ago | allafrica.com | Mary-Anne Gontsana

Municipality has no immediate plans to move families living at the Masonwabe temporary relocation area in Gugulethu Families were moved from the Masonwabe Hostel in Gugulethu in 2013 as a temporary measure while the City of Cape Town fixed the dilapidated building they were living in. The building was demolished, and the site remains vacant. Now the families want to know when they will be moved to permanent housing.

2 weeks ago | groundup.org.za | Mary-Anne Gontsana

Families were moved from the Masonwabe Hostel in Gugulethu in 2013 as a temporary measure while the City of Cape Town fixed the dilapidated building they were living in. The building was demolished, and the site remains vacant. Now the families want to know when they will be moved to permanent housing. But the City now says it has no immediate plans to move the families from their temporary relocation area.

3 weeks ago | ewn.co.za | Marecia Damons |Mary-Anne Gontsana

GroundUp visited two South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) offices in Cape Town on Wednesday amid concerns that Old Age payment grants would be affected by the Postbank card switch. Over the past few months, millions of beneficiaries were asked to urgently migrate to the new Postbank Black Card.Last Friday, Postbank announced that beneficiaries using the SASSA Gold Card have until 31 May to swap to the Black Card. The previous deadline was 20 March. Old age grants were paid on Wednesday.

3 weeks ago | theafrica.co.za | Mary-Anne Gontsana

Words : By Mary-Anne Gontsana / GroundUp Langa residents marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre on Thursday to demand clarity on who is to benefit from a planned housing development in their ward - ward 51. Most of the demonstrators live in apartheid era hostels or are backyarders. Residents are fed up with promises from the City, said Sonwabo Nana. He said they had chosen Thursday, as they understood the mayor would be at a council meeting in the Civic Centre.

3 weeks ago | allafrica.com | Mary-Anne Gontsana

Some of the protesters still live in apartheid era hostels Langa residents marched to the Cape Town Civic Centre on Thursday to demand clarity on who is to benefit from a planned housing development in their ward - ward 51. They sang on the steps of the Civic Centre, waiting to handover their memorandum. Placards read: "Backyard dwellers deserve homes" and "We protected this land now build our homes". Most of the demonstrators live in apartheid era hostels or are backyarders.