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City-hired security company suspends 250 employees

Workers claim they are placed where there is no clean water, toilets or electricity

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News | 21 July 2017

Violence erupts in Hout Bay as City attempts to reblock

Anti-Land Invasion Unit demolishes over 50 shacks

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News | 20 July 2017

Lost trial record hampers prisoner’s appeal

Bongile Mbangane’s case is not unusual in disorganised court system

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News | 20 July 2017

300 beds added to Western Cape’s shelters over past three years

But Cape Town CBD homeless shelters still need more beds

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News | 20 July 2017

Red Ants turf residents out of Johannesburg building

But legality of inner city eviction under question

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News | 19 July 2017

10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

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News | 19 July 2017

Official threatened me with old age home, says granny

75-year-old woman says she was told she would be sent to an institution if she did not shut up about her RDP house

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News | 19 July 2017

Zuma “makes us feel awkward for being black and smart”

Large meeting demands end to corrupt presidency

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News | 19 July 2017

Zimbabweans battle cost and bureaucracy of repatriating dead loved ones

Returning a body home costs about R20,000

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News | 19 July 2017

City announces U-turn on social housing

Reclaim the City welcomes plans for ten new sites for affordable housing but says it remains cautious

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News | 18 July 2017

Where a house for one means homelessness for another

Many people have lost their backyard shacks after RDP houses built in Wallacedene

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News | 18 July 2017

Meet Khayelitsha’s guerilla gardeners

Ujamaa encourages people to be less dependent on supermarkets for food

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News | 17 July 2017

Leader in Khayelitsha land occupation murdered

“We don’t know who to trust. We don’t know who is next.”

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News | 17 July 2017

Red Ants accused of firing rubber bullets

Residents also claim their belongings were stolen during evictions

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News | 14 July 2017

“Where must we go?” ask sisters facing eviction from wine farm

“But what do we do?” says owner of Excelsior

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News | 14 July 2017

Families in the dark waiting for Eskom

Many Wallacedene residents have been without electricity because of faulty installation

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News | 13 July 2017