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Thousands of homes flooded as violent storm batters Western Cape

Roads closed, schools and clinics damaged, rivers burst their banks

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News | 9 July 2024

Kariega flood victims forced to move back to sodden land

Residents of Old Lapland informal settlement protested against returning as they fear the dam wall above them will burst

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News | 9 July 2024

Butterworth families evicted by chiefs in 2011 are still waiting for promised houses

People of Bhungeni were moved to make way for a mall which has still not been built

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News | 9 July 2024

Exhibition honours work of late Bang Bang Club photojournalist

Ken Oosterbroek’s “photographs will bring awareness to the importance of photography in the creation of our collective historical record” says curator

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News | 9 July 2024

City of Cape Town buys occupied Marikana land seven years after landmark ruling

Last week Eskom disconnected over 300 illegal connections in the settlement. Hours later people connected them again.

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News | 8 July 2024

Gauteng social development department wants to buy a building but doesn’t know what for

Up to R70-million budgeted for building in central Pretoria

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News | 8 July 2024

Last 100 Paradise Park residents in Hermanus evicted

Decade-long battle to stave off eviction comes to an end

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News | 5 July 2024

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation joins call for library to be reopened

The Louisa Prince Library in Ennerdale has been closed since 2021

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News | 5 July 2024

New shelter for homeless people in Muizenberg

The site for a 60-bed “Safe Space” is still being finalised

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News | 4 July 2024

Gauteng government abandons hundreds of homeless people in Tshwane shelters

Organisation that provided food and social services owed R2.9-million

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News | 4 July 2024

Crucial penguin conservation plan heads to court

Minister accused of placing fishing industry interests above the survival of penguins

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News | 4 July 2024

Musicians in “Little Jazz Town” want Gayton McKenzie to fix their broken arts centre

Komani jazz legend Mlungisi Gegana blames the Eastern Cape arts department for the collapse of the centre

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News | 3 July 2024

Khayelitsha women want to start a clothing factory

“We want others to see that as women, we can create our own opportunities and succeed,” says founder of sewing business

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News | 3 July 2024

City of eThekwini pays millions for a handful of useless toilets and showers

A private company is charging the City R250,000 a month for 12 toilets and 12 showers at homeless shelters and hardly any of them are working

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News | 2 July 2024

Bold and colourful designs at Khayelitsha Fashion Week

Designers from across the Cape Flats showed their creations at Artscape

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News | 2 July 2024

Arm-wrestling pulls record number of contenders to national champs

The tournament was held in Paarl at the weekend

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News | 1 July 2024