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300 beds added to Western Cape’s shelters over past three years

But Cape Town CBD homeless shelters still need more beds

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News | 20 July 2017

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Activists present stats on unequal policing

Areas with highest murder rates have fewer police resources, says SJC

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Brief | 20 July 2017

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Brakpan gogo fires warning gunshots and blows whistle on electricity thieves

“I am tired of paying large sums of money for electricity”

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Brief | 20 July 2017

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Red Ants turf residents out of Johannesburg building

But legality of inner city eviction under question

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News | 19 July 2017

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10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

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News | 19 July 2017

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Official threatened me with old age home, says granny

75-year-old woman says she was told she would be sent to an institution if she did not shut up about her RDP house

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News | 19 July 2017

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Zuma “makes us feel awkward for being black and smart”

Large meeting demands end to corrupt presidency

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News | 19 July 2017

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Zimbabweans battle cost and bureaucracy of repatriating dead loved ones

Returning a body home costs about R20,000

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News | 19 July 2017

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City announces U-turn on social housing

Reclaim the City welcomes plans for ten new sites for affordable housing but says it remains cautious

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News | 18 July 2017

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89 people murdered and not one arrest at Glebelands hostel

If you want to hire hitmen, go to Glebelands, hears Moerane Commission into political killings

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Brief | 18 July 2017

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Where a house for one means homelessness for another

Many people have lost their backyard shacks after RDP houses built in Wallacedene

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News | 18 July 2017

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Takedown of Black Opinion website exposes poor SA internet law

Internet Service Providers should not have to decide which websites are kosher

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Opinion | 18 July 2017

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What is government doing about Cape Town’s water crisis?

There are a number of projects underway, but it’s not yet clear if it’s enough

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Feature | 18 July 2017

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Asylum seekers entitled to UIF

Court orders Department of Labour to pay out

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Law | 18 July 2017

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Three national ministers fail to pitch at summit

Student leaders disrupt School and Campus Safety Summit after no show by police, higher education and basic education ministers

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Brief | 17 July 2017

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We can fix the rural housing shortage

But it will need farmers, municipalities, NGOs, unions, and businesses to work together

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Opinion | 17 July 2017

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