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Evidence of IPID cover-up mounts, but Joemat-Pettersson declines to act

Auditor-General warned police watchdog against manipulating statistics in 2017

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News | 5 December 2019

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Opposition to City of Cape Town’s business park plan

The City wants to turn part of the Racing Park into emergency housing units

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News | 4 December 2019

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Osizweni residents cry foul on road construction jobs

Their names were drawn, but they never got the promised work

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News | 4 December 2019

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Motshekga gets poor rating from Equal Education after six months

“People’s appraisal” held outside minister’s Pretoria office

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News | 3 December 2019

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Bid to protect West Coast jewel from mining

Controversial Australian company applies for further prospecting rights

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News | 3 December 2019

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Farrar Park residents blame dumping for spoiling neighbourhood

Mining company refuses to erect new fence

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News | 3 December 2019

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Metropolitan cites obscure rule to withhold full amount of interest from Durbanville man

Company denies claim but offers to pay half as “goodwill gesture”

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News | 2 December 2019

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“What is the use of voting while we are still suffering”

Pietermaritzburg residents say they were promised houses years ago

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News | 2 December 2019

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Commuter Lunga Zawa uses a wheelchair. But Nyanga station is only accessible by stairs

Cape Town Association for the Physically Disabled has been fighting since 2015 for better access

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News | 29 November 2019

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Gay activist stages pop-up theatre in city streets

“My performances are for the mother with a gay son who is hiding”

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News | 29 November 2019

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Huge new housing project in Retreat

5,000 homes to be built, says MEC, but Parkwood residents still sceptical

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News | 29 November 2019

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Mbalula under fire following train arson

Eighteen coaches “gutted” at Cape Town station at a cost of over R60 million

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News | 28 November 2019

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IPID probes intimidation charges against family of raped 13-year-old

Witnesses say men who threatened Brakpan mother came in police cars

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News | 27 November 2019

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Vandalised anti-apartheid museum in PE may soon be open again

Residents closed down Red Location Museum in 2013

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News | 27 November 2019

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UNHCR refugee protest stems from failures at Home Affairs

Long delays, inefficiencies and obstructionism causes frustration and anger among asylum seekers

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News | 27 November 2019

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Province defends its actions on Tafelberg sale

“We can only give more to housing at a cost to education”

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News | 26 November 2019