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25,000 people live in Tshwane’s squalid apartheid hostels
Broken windows, filthy and broken toilets, terrible stink: the hostels are crumbling and there’s no money to fix them
By Chris Gilili
News | 16 November 2022
Woodstock residents rattled by police raid
The City of Cape Town says Cissie Gool House has been “hijacked” and that Reclaim the City has lost control
By Daniel Steyn
News | 16 November 2022
Community newspapers cry foul over copyright claims from Reuters, AFP
Association of Independent Publishers says this is “predatory behaviour”
By Daniel Steyn
News | 15 November 2022
Protesters sleep outside Constitutional Court, demanding apartheid reparations
More than 150 people have been braving the weather for weeks
News | 15 November 2022
Woman who survived mountain fall must wait six weeks for operation
Makemiso Ramabitle is in severe pain but her nearest hospital in rural Eastern Cape does not have capacity to perform the necessary surgery
News | 15 November 2022
Cape Town mother has to beg for money to buy nappies for her disabled son
15-year-old Donnel, who has hydrocephalus, wants to go to school
News | 15 November 2022
What happened to Cape Town’s promised affordable housing policy?
Activists launch report on urgent need for “inclusive” housing policy
News | 14 November 2022
Covid: Vaccine drive is running out of steam
Vaccination still helps prevent serious illness and death
By Daniel Steyn
News | 14 November 2022
Mother makes over 200 calls to Post Offices in desperate bid to get her social grant
Postbank says it is working to resolve the system glitch for all recipients
By Liezl Human
News | 11 November 2022