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Dial-a-Ride users say the service is deteriorating

Vehicles easily confused with MyCiTi buses put disabled commuters in danger, say passengers

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News | 12 October 2017

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Mfuleni parents demand a new school with better security

100 desks and 100 chairs stolen during holidays

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News | 12 October 2017

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New school for Khayelitsha

Zwelitsha families to be moved to make way for school

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Brief | 12 October 2017

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Fears of more school disruptions in Limpopo

Threats of another shutdown in Vuwani as matric exams near

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Parliament | 12 October 2017

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Albert Road evictions postponed for settlement

Court date set for November

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Brief | 11 October 2017

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Cape Town’s Marikana community mourns victims of massacre

Names of the dead released

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Brief | 11 October 2017

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Freak storm in Gauteng leaves residents without electricity, water and toilets

I am just glad to be alive, says 70-year-old

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News | 11 October 2017

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Hekpoort settlement has been trying for 12 years to get water

Frustrated Schaumburg residents fed-up with politicians

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News | 11 October 2017

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No toilets in Barcelona after 25 years

“We sleep with shit inside our shacks at night”

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Brief | 11 October 2017

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Diving for abalone among the great white sharks

Impoverished Gansbaai residents risk death to supply illicit trade

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Feature | 11 October 2017

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Man terrorized for renting shop to a Somali

Xenophobic Duduza residents “ban” Somali, Pakistani, Ethiopian, Bangladeshi and Eritrean residents from owning shops

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News | 11 October 2017

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City of Cape Town intends to take over commuter trains

Metrorail service “on the brink of collapse”

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Brief | 10 October 2017

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PE houses stand in “dams of human faeces”

Municipality blames blockages on “foreign objects”

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Brief | 10 October 2017

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Everything’s just fine, say Railway Police in response to damning PRASA letter

Cop spokesperson says they are not aware of any dissatisfaction

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Brief | 10 October 2017

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Karate much more than a sport for Khayelitsha kids

Goju-Kai style karate has become popular with dojos in Khayelitsha, Langa, Mfuleni and Gugulethu.

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Photo Essay | 10 October 2017

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Gogos get a health kick out of soccer

Bafana Bafana better watch out says team of 60 to 80-year-olds

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News | 10 October 2017

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