Articles for Mpumi Kiva

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Homemade alcoholic brew finds a market as prices soar

ā€œPeople are bored of sitting at home doing nothingā€

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Brief | 19 May 2020

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Planting veggies for the hard times ahead

Candy Mayfair of Oudtshoorn has started growing vegetables for the first time in her life

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Brief | 15 May 2020

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Oudtshoorn families accuse municipality of sidelining them for housing

Municipality says plan to provide housing and services to Zone 14 could only start next year

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Brief | 14 May 2020

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ā€œPoliticians come and make promises that are never fulfilledā€ says Oudtshoorn resident

The municipality says there are plans to improve the nearly 20-year-old settlements

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News | 20 April 2020

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Covid-19: Leather business in Oudtshoorn takes strain as tourism plummets

Cheslyn Wagenaar makes belts and sandals at his RDP home with offcuts of crocodile and ostrich skins

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Brief | 18 April 2020

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Covid-19: George residents thankful for its many soup kitchens

About 80 feeding schemes are operating during the lockdown, many from peopleā€™s backyards

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Brief | 7 April 2020

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Fed-up after 20 years on a waiting list, gogo builds her own house

Gloria Matebe collected the wood to build her new home from a nearby dumpsite

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News | 17 January 2020