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Covid-19 concerns at homeless camp after officers test positive
Up to a week after being tested, dozens of people staying at the City of Cape Town’s Strandontein camp don’t have their results
By James Stent and Lucas Nowicki
News | 1 May 2020
Details of two additional alleged lockdown killings by police revealed
Police were accused of killing five people during the enforcement of the first three weeks of Covid-19 lockdown
News | 30 April 2020
Covid-19: Banned from collecting firewood, grandmother cooks over a fire of plastic bottles
“The food tastes horrible and the smoke makes us cough,” says Mona Sias of Cookhouse
News | 30 April 2020
“Coronavirus is the last thing to worry about while looking for gold deep inside a mine”
Informal miners say they are continuing operations amid lockdown
News | 30 April 2020
Covid-19: Increase in social grants not good enough, say critics
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
News | 29 April 2020
Beaches at risk: Report reveals alarming pollution along Cape Town’s coast
Popular beaches are among 31 polluted sites, long-awaited water quality report shows
News | 29 April 2020
Covid-19: Strandfontein site for homeless to be closed, says councillor
Email reveals plan to close it on Thursday
By James Stent
News | 29 April 2020
Covid-19 prolongs Makhanda water crisis
Hundreds of millions budgeted for bulk water and sanitation projects to be shifted to emergency response plan
News | 29 April 2020
Conflict in Philippi over electricity connections
Men living in Ramaphosa informal settlement accused of attacking women in Victoria Mxenge community
News | 28 April 2020