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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

Joe Slovo Women’s Forum want houses not flats

Community members call for new steering committee for N2 Gateway housing project

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News | 13 July 2017

Gang extorts money from Glebelands residents for murder accused

“We’re already anticipating a death. There’s been threats and signs.”

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News | 13 July 2017

Heated civil society meeting debates secret ballot

Opposing positions presented by Makhosi Khoza, Bantu Holomisa and Steven Friedman

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News | 12 July 2017

Municipality fails to fix public pool despite years of promises

It stands empty and overgrown in Mdantsane, a lost opportunity for the surrounding community

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News | 12 July 2017

Metrorail’s smashing relationship with cars

“It will be fixed” says Metrorail – but it’s not clear when

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News | 12 July 2017

Good Samaritans step in after mass evictions

An elderly woman and a mother with a disabled child found shelter in the community after the PE municipality demolished their shacks

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News | 11 July 2017

Ocean View forms human chain to highlight crime problem

Residents claim 13 murders so far this year but police won’t release stats

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News | 10 July 2017

Suspicious death leaves immigrant family in poverty

The family of man who died in a mysterious fire say people told them to go back to the Congo

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News | 10 July 2017

Prisoners relocated after riot at correctional facility

Inmates staged sit-ins and hunger strikes over long backlogs for parole

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News | 7 July 2017

Social grant beneficiaries happy after cancelling “green” cards

People who closed EasyPay Everywhere accounts received their full grant amount on SASSA cards

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News | 7 July 2017

Petition launched after damning report on Eastern Cape schools

“This looks like a place for cows, but we are humans studying under these conditions”

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News | 6 July 2017