News

Cele calls for calm after xenophobic violence

“It is my main source of income. I use it to feed my children” says woman whose restaurant was burnt down

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News | 3 September 2019

Xenophobic violence spreads to Alexandra - where it started in 2008

“I don’t think I can stay here anymore. It is not safe and this happens every year” says Bangladeshi shop owner

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News | 3 September 2019

Addo canal claims more lives

Five-year-old boys drown, bringing the number of deaths this year to seven

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News | 3 September 2019

Komape hearing: judge lashes Limpopo education department

The state’s case against the family of drowned schoolboy is “insensitive”, says Justice Navsa

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News | 3 September 2019

Court rules that Glebelands witnesses will testify in camera

Harrowing testimony of witness to shootings

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News | 3 September 2019

Traditional leaders want land for initiation schools

Informal settlements in Nelson Mandela Bay are crowding out schools, they say

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News | 2 September 2019

Langa councillor’s home petrol-bombed

Police are investigating cases of arson, attempted murder and public violence

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News | 2 September 2019

Residents give Gauteng Premier seven days to respond to demand for land

Land identified for possible housing has been standing vacant for months

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News | 31 August 2019

Rising sea levels already causing problems for Cape Town

“We may need to retreat and allow nature to provide a barrier to the ocean” says Mayco Member

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News | 30 August 2019

Khayelitsha land occupiers to square off with City in court

The group occupying land in Makhaza plan to oppose their eviction in court on 9 September

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News | 30 August 2019

Court battles continue for prisoner to get access to laptop for studying

Inmate who took correctional services to court put in isolation for seven days for “disrespecting a prison official”

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News | 30 August 2019

Despatch housing project halted by “political tensions”

A group of residents have occupied a housing project site in a protest against their ward councillor

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News | 30 August 2019

Tensions flare at Cape housing dialogue

Gatvol Capetonian has given government 30 days to address some of their demands

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News | 29 August 2019

Farmworkers want 67 pesticides banned

NGO says the pesticides are already banned in the European Union

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News | 29 August 2019

Glebelands officer admits to “mistake” during cross examination

Eight men are currently on trial for a spate of murders and other crimes at the Glebelands Hostel

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News | 29 August 2019

115 households in Despatch left in the cold while municipality and Housing Development Agency shift blame

“Every morning I wake up and sit on that cement foundation just to get the sun”

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News | 29 August 2019