Apartheid bequeathed democratic South Africa with stark spatial divisions, epitomised by dormitory townships. The treasury’s Cities Support Programme is supporting five metros with a new, bottom-up approach to building township economies
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Backyard rooms offer a solution to SA’s housing crisis
Letting outside quarters has been seen as a means of survival, but what if it is the natural evolution of urban development that could provide homes and livelihoods simultaneously?
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Townships imprison black potential
This year marks 107 years since the Native Land Act — and the majority of black people are still locked into its stranglehold, pariahs in their own country