Assoc Prof Sarah Charlton comments on why people live rough in parks, in on the fencing of Albert Farm Conservancy.
Podcast: Assoc Prof Sarah Charlton, Harriet Perlman, and Chris Lund discuss the .
Informal settlements
Business Day Live (22 September 2025)
Marie Huchzermeyer is interviewed on 702 (radio) (11 September 2025)
Marie Huchzermeyer is interviewed on ENCA (television) (5 September 2025)
Marie Huchzermeyer is interviewed on 702 (radio) on ‘Push for change to eviction laws as SA informal settlements soar’ (3 December 2024)
Marie Huchzermeyer is interviewed on Newsroom Africa (television) on rapid land release (12 June 2024)
Prof Marie Huchzermeyer participates in a on flooding affecting the informal settlements along the Jukskei River in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
Socio-economic implications of COVID-19 lockdown
Marie Huchzermeyer participated in an online panel at The Forge in Braamfontein in 2020 about the COVID-19 informal settlement de-densification plans in South Africa:
Podcast: Marie Huchzermeyer and Jethron Ayumbah Akallah discuss the Covid 19 situation in informal settlements in Kenya and South Africa in the Urban Political series (May 2020):
Colleagues from the City Lab at Ardhi University in Dar es Salaam (one of who is now a postdoc in CUBES, Priscila Izar) of how the urban poor experience the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
Housing challenges
Sarah Charlton was invited to develop and narrate a video contribution to the exhibition ‘For those who will come’, produced and displayed by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Québec. Her episode deals with apartheid and post-apartheid state-funded housing in SA. .
Sarah Charlton and Margot Rubin speak on Peter Ahmed’s podcast series on 25 March 2020 on the topic of incremental densification.
Visiting researcher Dr Tanya Zack was the lead consultant in the multidisciplinary RebelGroup team that developed the Inner City Housing Implementation Plan (ICHIP) and Sarah Charlton was on its advisory group and contributed to its research.
