Photo of two women pretending to use toilets

Khayelitsha residents in stand-off with City

3,000 residents hand in submissions on budget

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News | 29 April 2016

Photo of woman in wheelchair at protest

Protesters call for better transport for disabled people

“I am disabled and not stupid”

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News | 29 April 2016

Photo of Ntokozo Qwabe.

Rhodes Must Fall Leader tells waiter: “We will give tip when you return the land”

Observatory worker reduced to tears

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News | 29 April 2016

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Metrorail diary: Friday

Pushing and shoving to get onto the train

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News | 29 April 2016

Photo of drumming workshop

Drumming is in my blood, says city businessman

Ghanaian Solomon Ajimah hosts free weekly sessions

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News | 29 April 2016

Photo of student protest at UCT in 2015

Students call for UCT lecturer to be removed

Kenneth Hughes has to record the remainder of his economic history lecture series

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News | 29 April 2016

Photo of protesters in Motherwell

Some Motherwell residents boycott Freedom Day celebrations

Shack and backyard dwellers choose rather to protest over housing

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News | 28 April 2016

Photo of the Western Cape High Court

Hearing of contempt of court charge against Home Affairs postponed

Department accused of wasting money

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News | 28 April 2016

Photo of deputy police commissioner addressing residents in Nyanga

We live in fear without freedom, say Nyanga residents

Freedom Day protest at police station

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News | 28 April 2016

Photo of woman holding Zuma Must Fall placard

Moderate turnout for #ZumaMustFall march in Cape Town

Supporters from all major political parties, including ANC, participated

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News | 28 April 2016

Photo of people jumping onto railway tracks

Metrorail diary: Thursday

Another chaotic day trying to get to work in Cape Town

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Brief | 28 April 2016

Photo of Oswald Kucherera

Zimbabwean receptionist publishes his first book

Oswald Kucherera tells the story of his travails from Harare to Cape Town

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News | 28 April 2016

Photo of man painting concrete pillar

Motherwell brothers use art to stop illegal dump site

Rubbish dump paintings lead to fame for Port Elizabeth pair

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News | 28 April 2016

School students marching with banners

We are targets for crime, say school students

Students march to demand safer schools

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Blikkiesdorp residents demand to know where they’re to be moved

Protesters march to Civic Centre

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News | 26 April 2016

Photo of vehicle with bullet holes

McDonald’s shooting: family suspects police cover-up

Sister of dead man still in the dark

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