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Riot in Mfuleni follows shack removals

“I want to have my own place and stand on my own two feet because I’m an adult”

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News | 8 March 2018

Mother tells of her child’s death in shack fire

Family unable to afford funeral for nine-year-old

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News | 8 March 2018

Learners bullied into using taxis

High school students say taxis are cramped, late, unsafe, and expensive

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News | 8 March 2018

SASSA is trying to blackmail Constitutional Court, says judge

Social Security Agency argues for extension of CPS contract

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News | 7 March 2018

Informal gold miner shot dead and eight arrested

Security guards accused of corruption and double-crossing illegal miners

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News | 7 March 2018

“We are 52 students in one container”

Philippi students marched to Parliament to demand better school infrastructure and more teachers

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News | 6 March 2018

Housing picket outside Brett Herron’s home

Herron says Wolwerivier is all the City can offer for now

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News | 6 March 2018

Car wash jobs threatened by water restrictions

Informal operators say it’s their only form of employment

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News | 6 March 2018

Investigation of killed foreign student is “test for Bheki Cele”

Dozens protest outside University of Johannesburg residence

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News | 5 March 2018

Gugulethu occupiers call for City to buy land for them

“If the City builds double-storey flats here, about 700 homeless residents can get a place to stay”

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News | 5 March 2018

Manenberg parents demand donated funds from school

Principal says money to be used for next year’s fees

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News | 5 March 2018

Waste pickers snubbed by City and Province

“Absence of land is blocking our dream”

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News | 2 March 2018

Charges dropped against UWC students after 16 months

“Being falsely accused and imprisoned was terrifying”

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News | 2 March 2018

Here is the status of Cape Town’s water supply projects

City promises to engage with UCT scientists over concerns about drilling into the Table Mountain Group aquifer

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News | 2 March 2018

Quarrel over Sarah Baartman sculpture at UCT

Librarian removes covering that students had placed over Willie Bester’s artwork

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News | 2 March 2018

Cape Town is paying for national government failures, say officials

Ian Neilson warns that Day Zero is still possible: water consumption needs to drop to 450 million litres daily

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News | 1 March 2018