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City enforcement units and SAPS public order policing were sent to an erf off Voortrekker Road in Kensington on Sunday after about 50 people began putting up structures on Ndabeni Land Trust land despite a court interdict.
An analysis of Stats SA's residential property price index against the Auditor-General's latest municipal audit outcomes shows Cape Town leading and Buffalo City lagging, though several metros break the pattern.
The Western Cape High Court has ordered the City of Cape Town and other respondents to restore possession of the Gate 7 site in Maitland and allow residents to rebuild structures demolished in late October.
A 1.9-hectare plot in Umhlanga has come to market at R2.95 million, below the R3.6 million average sale price for erven in the KwaZulu-Natal coastal suburb, according to a Private Property listing.
Former lawyer Martin Venter bought a neglected wine farm on the Berg River for about R20 million in 2002; Val de Vie is now a 917-hectare gated estate whose developer put its asset value at about R15 billion.
Four accused alleged to have used falsified documents to secure a residential lease in Waterkloof Heights, Pretoria, will return to court in February 2027 while the State completes financial investigations.
Rosinah Nketu registered for a government house in 1997 and is still in a backyard shack, while Gauteng's housing needs register carries more than 1.13 million names and the province says it cannot set an allocation timeframe.
With the Garden Route's average sale price at R2.5 million and supply down 18 percent year on year, buyers seeking property below R300,000 are left with two small towns at opposite ends of the region.
The Stellenbosch Property Market Report for the first half of 2026 records 379 residential sales worth R1.864 billion across 44 suburbs, with eight high-value suburbs accounting for about 35 per cent of transaction value.