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Covid-19: COSAS closes down Cape Town school

Matric students sent home

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News | 18 June 2020

Eastern Cape mud school “falling apart” say parents

Parents say they have been asking the department for a new school for over 20 years

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News | 18 June 2020

Shack dwellers make up their own housing list for new City of Cape Town project

Dozens try to occupy land set aside for Maroela Project

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News | 18 June 2020

United Civil Society in Action sues GroundUp and the National Lotteries Commission

Case brought after GroundUp exposed dodgy grants and looting of funds

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News | 17 June 2020

Teenagers sell fruit and vegetables to help family make ends meet

“Our mother has taught us to work extra hard because we are immigrants”

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News | 17 June 2020

Family of five die in shack fire

Teenage daughter survives as she was visiting her cousin at the time of the fire

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News | 15 June 2020

Civil society steps in to monitor complaints against the police and army

Earlier lockdown restrictions prevented many people from reporting abuses, says activist

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News | 15 June 2020

Covid-19: Durban customers fed-up with bad hair days

Hairstylists find ways to work while salons are closed

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News | 15 June 2020

Uitenhage stylist uses his hair to protest against Covid-19 lockdown

“What have we done?” asks Onele Cembi

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News | 15 June 2020

Residents clash with land occupiers in Uitenhage

Municipality says land is earmarked for beneficiaries of de-densification programme

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News | 12 June 2020

Asylum seeker with spinal cord injury faces eviction from his shack

Markus Nyoni can no longer pay his rent because of the Covid-19 pandemic

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News | 12 June 2020

People who have recovered from Covid-19 say they are stigmatised

“No one visited our house anymore. So we left Port Elizabeth”

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News | 12 June 2020

Conflict in Hout Bay as City demolishes structures

Teargas, rubber bullets and stones exchanged between police and residents

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News | 11 June 2020

Humewood police accused of using coronavirus as an excuse to get off duty

Police spokesperson says it is unnecessary to close an entire station and send all officers for testing

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News | 11 June 2020

Lottery fails to name beneficiaries of multimillion-rand Covid-19 fund

MP complains to Parliament about lack of disclosure

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News | 11 June 2020