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UCT strike begins – support staff demand 7.5% increase for 2024

They also want a unified bargaining forum

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News | 8 February 2024

Communities demand more benefits from mines in their towns

About 200 people attended a summit hosted by Mining Affected Communities United in Action in Pretoria

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News | 8 February 2024

Huge Gugulethu housing project dead in the water

Successive failure of construction companies leaves families waiting

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News | 8 February 2024

UCT Employees Union to go on strike on Thursday

The union said negotiations with university has failed

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News | 7 February 2024

New Makhaza police station can’t open because there’s no water or electricity

The station was completed at the end of December after a 10-year wait

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News | 7 February 2024

Cofimvaba scholar transport protest enters third week

The Eastern Cape has increased its scholar transport budget to accommodate a shortfall of 12,000 learners

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News | 6 February 2024

Hospital guards in limbo as EC health department fails to pay security company

Security company says it had to terminate the contract because health department has not paid

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News | 6 February 2024

Rubbish piles up in growing Mfuleni settlements

More families moved onto land during Covid

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News | 6 February 2024

Fishing companies take Creecy to court over quotas

Fishing Rights Allocation Process was “rushed and haphazardly allocated” says lawyer for fishers

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News | 5 February 2024

Steel mill in Cape Town ordered to comply with air quality regulations

Kamal-CISCO told to cease operations and meet conditions of emissions licence

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News | 5 February 2024

Court battle looms over Observatory pavement occupation

The City wants to move the occupiers to Delft South but they say that’s too far away

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News | 2 February 2024

Battle in Khayelitsha over occupied land

The Khayelitsha Community Trust plans to build a private hospital displacing informal settlement formed during Covid

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News | 2 February 2024

Tenants say they’ve been abandoned in Benoni’s crumbling apartheid-era municipal flats

80-year-old Sarah Govender has lived in the Actonville flats since the 1980s

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News | 2 February 2024

Nine years later, here is how Wolwerivier is doing

Residents of the City’s emergency housing development face unemployment, extreme heat, and overcrowding. But “we have achieved a lot” says a community member

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News | 1 February 2024

Gangs make us pay for access to water, say Mamelodi residents

Municipality confirms illegal connections to the reservoir but blames people occupying nearby land

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News | 1 February 2024