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Housing activists occupy state-owned buildings near Cape Town centre

Civil disobedience action follows provincial government’s decision not to build social housing on Tafelberg property in Sea Point

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News | 27 March 2017

Delft taxi war calms down

Police call for people not to spread panic on social media

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News | 24 March 2017

Street lights don’t work in Mdantsane

Residents complain about crime

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News | 24 March 2017

Paarl families living in apartheid hostels

Some residents have been waiting since the 1980s and 90s to convert their accommodation to family units

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News | 24 March 2017

Fire victims in Imizamo Yethu agree to halt rebuilding

Residents want City to explain re-blocking plans on site

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News | 24 March 2017

Immigrant finds her feet selling shoes

Melania sells second-hand footwear smuggled from Mozambique

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News | 24 March 2017

School children sent home to use toilets during school hours

Bathrooms stripped bare by thieves

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News | 23 March 2017

Tafelberg sale to proceed: no social housing

Reclaim the City slams the Western Cape government decision

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News | 22 March 2017

Satellite police station not enough, say Nyanga residents

Nyanga has the highest number of murders in the country: 279 victims in a year

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News | 22 March 2017

Prayers for Ahmed Kathrada at Liliesleaf

Condition of struggle stalwart improved but “unpredictable”, says Kathrada Foundation

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News | 22 March 2017

Reblocking at Imizamo Yethu suspended

City obtains an interdict against rebuilders

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News | 20 March 2017

Immigrants in Imizamo Yethu: no relocation from community “we are used to”

Some foreign nationals have rebuilt their shacks after the fire despite City agreement

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News | 20 March 2017

Police stop anti-immigrant march in Rosettenville

“No houses will be burnt today. No shops will be looted. We will not allow such to happen.”

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News | 20 March 2017

Free Zimbabwean contraceptives smuggled for sale in South Africa

A black market has emerged in contraceptive pills

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News | 19 March 2017

Community faces uncertain future after fire in Imizamo Yethu

Mixed reaction among residents to City plans to reblock

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News | 17 March 2017

Constitutional Court orders CPS to carry on paying grants, rejects fee increase

Judges slam Minister of Social Development and SASSA

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News | 17 March 2017