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Women make a living picking through scrap metal

“It’s amazing what valuable pieces one can find … Maybe one day l will even find gold”

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News | 27 February 2020

Budget Day marked by protests and marches

Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights

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News | 26 February 2020

Paraplegic man dreams of having a house

Lwando Sigaqa lives in a shack in Taiwan informal settlement

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News | 26 February 2020

Furious Uitenhage protesters block roads, turn learners back from school, stone councillor’s office

Shack dwellers vow to bar politicians from Bobani Village until progress is made with electrification

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News | 25 February 2020

Couple dies in shack fire in Kraaifontein

Wallacedene shack dwellers say they had no water to extinguish the blaze

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News | 25 February 2020

Eastern Cape villagers promised water in 1998, still waiting

Over R23 million spent and the bills keep mounting, but the taps stay dry in Flagstaff villages

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News | 25 February 2020

Campaigners launch The Real Jobs Summit ahead of budget speech

About 150 protesters marched to Parliament on Monday under the banner of Cry of the Xcluded campaign

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News | 25 February 2020

Hospital in dire straits after Eastern Cape Health Department fails to pay contractors

Refurbishment ground to a halt at the hospital when the department ran out of money. Union threatens to down tools

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News | 25 February 2020

Judges award punitive cost order against PRASA for delay in multi-billion rand Siyangena case

#UniteBehind calls for PRASA’s Administrator to be held liable for part of the legal fees

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News | 24 February 2020

Abahlali marches in support of land expropriation

“We want government to give us title deeds for the land that we are already occupying”

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News | 24 February 2020

Not safe to go to the toilet

Residents of Kliprand informal settlement have opted for the bucket system because gangs target people using communal toilets at night

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News | 24 February 2020

Vandals make drought worse in Graaff-Reinet

Taps ran dry last year for thousands of residents in drought-stricken town

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News | 24 February 2020

Protest theatre comes to the Waterfront

Cry of the Xcluded is a campaign against unemployment

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News | 24 February 2020

Violent protests in PE over failure to relocate shack dwellers

“The residents have been flooded with empty promises by human settlements officials” says ward councillor

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News | 21 February 2020

COSATU demands government and PRASA fix Metrorail

Hundreds marched in Cape Town on Thursday

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News | 20 February 2020

Province raps City’s knuckles over state of rivers

Water quality results “disturbing” says MEC

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News | 20 February 2020