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Fish die-off in polluted Milnerton lagoon

City of Cape Town says cause is probably growth of algae

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News | 17 October 2022

Book Festival brings authors and poets to the Cape Flats

Two-day event in Mitchells Plain draws hundreds of participants

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News | 17 October 2022

District Six occupiers paid compensation by City of Cape Town

Court ruled that they were illegally evicted

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News | 14 October 2022

No shelter for homeless people in Knysna, but that may change soon

Municipality says its working on opening a temporary shelter for about 200 people by the end of this year

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News | 14 October 2022

Braille trail launched in Worcester

The trail at a popular botanical garden is accessible to people who use wheelchairs and people who are blind or visually impaired

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News | 14 October 2022

22 Durban police officers in court for Regan Naidoo’s death

“I just feel sorry for them. I wonder how they sleep after what they did,” says Regan’s father

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News | 13 October 2022

Families living in community hall since 2018 face eviction

The group of former backyard dwellers have been occupying Gugulethu’s Luyolo hall for four years

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News | 13 October 2022

Disabled people moved because of Covid are living in filthy conditions

One man in Gqberha had to build his own ramp into his house

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News | 13 October 2022

Bitter battle over who represents Khoi tribe in Amazon development

Goringhaicona Khoi leader called a fraud and a bully

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News | 13 October 2022

Security guards conned by student activist hold picket at UCT

Guards ask students for forgiveness and to support their demand to be insourced

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News | 12 October 2022

Villagers have to dig for water because municipality fails to deliver

Water and Sanitation Department says long-awaited Mogogelo bulk water project has finally been completed

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News | 12 October 2022

Meet Eric Poku, the “Shoe Doctor” of central Pretoria

Cobbler has been stitching the inner city’s shoes for twenty years

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News | 12 October 2022

The bloody battle for land and rights in Cato Manor

Although the area is notorious for violence and assassinations, there are many residents working together to make it a better place

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News | 11 October 2022

About 7.5 million people receive the R350 grant

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu also announces top-up grant for relatives caring for orphans

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News | 11 October 2022

There’s nothing here to vandalise, Dunoon residents tell officials on anti-vandalism drive

Don’t lecture us about “water is life” when we have no water, says activist

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News | 10 October 2022

The student activist who gaslit workers and cost them their jobs

31 sacked security guards have asked UCT for forgiveness after being misled by Sibusiso Mpendulo

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News | 10 October 2022