Category: News
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The Mustard Seed as Affordable Housing
Since the purchase, transfer and renovation of The Mustard Seed house in 2018/2019, the house has continued to be a space for young women to find a home and community for varying periods of time and that meet their particular needs. This has meant that some women have been at the Mustard Seed for a…
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Transfer of Mustard Seed Home
We are about to sign the documents for the transfer of the Mustard Seed home to Level Ground! We have paid R525 000 to the Seller, and raised a bond for the remaining R1 375 000 We have taken a step of faith, trusting God for provision to pay off the bond. We will soon…
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Church, Respond to Gentrification!
The City that is Here in the city of Cape Town, the effects of poverty are widespread and rancorous. It is centuries old and it feels as though we who are rich have become numb to it. We have normalized what isn’t normal. The spirit of apartheid lingers on here, its last stand. Our city…
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Mustard Seed Home
We have become acutely aware of the adverse effects rising property prices in Cape Town’s inner city areas have had on the community we love, live in and serve. Many families have been forced to move to the outskirts of the city. We are also aware of the continued legacy of apartheid spatial planning in…
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A letter from a beneficiary
Dear Level Ground I want to thank you very much for the house that you bought for us to use. Really appreciate it. You don’t know what it means to us to live in a house. I am 15 years old and I have never lived in a house before. We lived in Joe Slovo…
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Building a wall in Langa
Calling everyone who wants to be part of an exciting day where we will be building a boundary wall around one of the houses we have delivered in Langa. Check our Facebook group for details. UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who helped out with the wall!
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Acquiring houses for Level Ground: – part of our journey so far
In March 2011 Level Ground put in their first offer on a house in Langa. After much drama and many prayers, transfer finally went through in December 2011.Then the real fun and hard work began, as plans were made for alterations, these then had to be submitted to council, and then building began. It was…
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House number 2! – OUR JOURNEY TO A BRICK HOUSE
My Wife and I have been staying in Joe Slovo. We have been staying there since 2002. At that stage we had no children. In 2004 we were blessed with a beautiful girl named Vuyolwethu (Vuyo). In 2006 God blessed us with a son Zingisile (Zingi) and…
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Our first house (“dream home”) delivered – Testimony from the new owner in her own words
I Rosemary Saffi was born in Hout Bay growing up in Mossel Bay with my grandparents from my mother’s side in a house. At the age of 18 I left home and came to live and work in Cape Town. I never could see myself living in…
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Jeremy writes
My involvement with Level Ground began because of all the friends I have in the township. My friends live in appalling conditions. In the winter it is very cold and their homes leak and in the summer their homes are like ovens. Many have electricity which comes via their neighbours and the toilet situation is…