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Housing activist killed in occupied Cape Town building

Former SWEAT official Ayanda Denge stabbed in Helen Bowden Nurses’ Home

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News | 26 March 2019

Week of housing protests at Sir Lowry’s Pass

Residents say their area is neglected and their councillor ignores them

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News | 26 March 2019

Did De Lille stall while Bo Kaap developers scored?

Four controversial developments approved while heritage protection plan delayed

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News | 26 March 2019

How dirty is the Cape Flats groundwater?

Water in the Cape Flats Aquifer is polluted by cemeteries, waste water treatment works, landfill sites and informal settlements

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News | 26 March 2019

Cape Town healthcare workers fear losing their jobs

Concerns over patient care if community workers’ contracts not renewed

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News | 26 March 2019

Residents burn down Alra Park police station

Claims of race discrimination in housing allocation

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News | 25 March 2019

Midrand crèche has community support but needs cash

An informal early childhood development centre has closed due to a lack of funds

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News | 25 March 2019

Refugee children turned away by Cape schools

Immigrant parents battle red tape to get their kids in school

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News | 22 March 2019

Pietermaritzburg community gripped by fear as witnesses and police are murdered

“These murders are done by people who are known”

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News | 22 March 2019

Human Rights Day protesters demand better housing

Activist calls for investigation into EThekwini Municipality officials, while in Cape Town Reclaim the City occupied a golf course

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News | 21 March 2019

Protesters extort cash and goods from immigrant shopkeepers

“I always give them two litres of paraffin for burning tyres during protests”

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News | 21 March 2019

Cape Flats residents protest for houses

Protesters demanded to see MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and then burnt tyres when he did not address them

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News | 20 March 2019

Radical new housing deal proposed to break apartheid barriers

City of Cape Town could use its golf courses and bowling greens for low cost housing, says report

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News | 20 March 2019

Names drawn from a bucket for KZN roads work

Residents demanded fair allocation of work on Newcastle contract

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News | 20 March 2019

Fix our roads, demand Pietermaritzburg residents

Taxi operators and bus drivers join residents in closing roads

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News | 19 March 2019

Frustrated by lack of services, shack dwellers block Baden Powell Drive

“The City will never help us until we protest.”

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News | 18 March 2019