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Two police officers in court for shooting Hanover Park father

A community worker is worried that the shooting will cause violence in the community

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News | 14 December 2020

Covid-19: learners risk a double blow as literacy projects struggle

Shifting donor priorities put library initiative at risk

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News | 14 December 2020

Elderly residents won’t be left on the streets, says CPOA

About 300 residents living in Cape Flats retirement homes will be moved to other facilities

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News | 14 December 2020

New advertising authority takes firm stand against quackery

Board says it will rule even on advertising claims by companies that are not members

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News | 11 December 2020

Rape Crisis picket at Khayelitsha court

Protesters demand proper facilities for sexual offences court

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News | 10 December 2020

Residents of Cape Town informal settlements share their challenges

The City has said that most parcels of occupied land are not suitable for housing or permanent bulk services

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News | 10 December 2020

Upington municipality breaks promise to protesters

Dawid Kruiper mayor and speaker “not available” for promised council meeting

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News | 10 December 2020

Child drowns in Philippi dam

Community leader says they have been pleading for years for the area to be fenced

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News | 10 December 2020

Recipient of R7m in Lottery money won’t say what it’s for

Mystery company is run by prominent businesswoman Carol Bouwer

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News | 10 December 2020

Diamond divers warn of damage to seabed from West Coast mining dams

Sea is so dark with sediment “we can’t even dive with lights”

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News | 9 December 2020

SIU and Hawks swoop on National Lotteries Commission

Laptops and documents seized, officials interviewed

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News | 8 December 2020

High levels of E. coli in water from Milnerton waste plant, say activists

But City of Cape Town says the tests used by activists are not an accurate reflection

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News | 8 December 2020

Covid-19 protocols are observed inside SASSA offices, but not in the snaking queues of people waiting outside

Social grant applicants spend the night huddled together outside in the hope of being helped

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News | 8 December 2020

Minimum wage should go up 4.5%, says Commission

Domestic workers should earn the same by 2022, say majority of commissioners

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News | 7 December 2020

Even my cat can’t fight the huge rats, says Langa resident

Cape Town township covered in uncollected garbage

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News | 7 December 2020

“We will celebrate Christmas in sewage again”

Philippi families have been struggling with overflowing drains for a year

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News | 4 December 2020