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Teachers attacked at Khayelitsha primary school

Department agrees to investigate community grievances over school management

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News | 26 October 2016

Paralysed teenager bitten by rats while sleeping

14-year-old Palesa Kwayiba, who uses a wheelchair, puts a brave face on the daily struggle of living in an informal settlement

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News | 26 October 2016

No toilets, no water, no shelter at teeming taxi rank

We have to beg for our basic needs as human beings, says trader

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News | 26 October 2016

UCT acts against disruptive protests

Interdict obtained from Western Cape High Court

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News | 26 October 2016

Day of protests in Cape Town tomorrow

Staff, students and a political party to demand a resolution to the university crisis

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News | 25 October 2016

Vegetable garden faces chop for being too ‘untidy’

"Not in our backyard," say library staff

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News | 25 October 2016

Mfuleni backyarders vow to stay where they are

Residents claim that land was promised in election campaign

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News | 25 October 2016

Robbers beaten to death by students

Campus residents say security is lax and residences are often targeted by criminals

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News | 25 October 2016

Disabled students protest against police on Wits

But as some exams disrupted university commits to continued security

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News | 24 October 2016

Hout Bay’s patrollers accused of being vigilantes who target innocent people

Resident recalls how he was left naked and almost dead

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News | 24 October 2016

High school students protest over safety and sanitation

Learners bring Cape Town traffic to a halt

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News | 21 October 2016

Dirty communal toilets cause stink in house

“Sometimes I cannot even cook because the smell from the toilets is overwhelming”

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News | 21 October 2016

Student leader Shaeera Kalla shot multiple times

Police accused of firing rubber bullets from close range when her back was turned to them

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News | 20 October 2016

SCA rules on UCT’s “Shackville Five”

In other UCT news, a security guard is in hospital in serious condition

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News | 20 October 2016

Backlash from staff and alumni against UCT executive

University receives PAIA request, and two petitions calling for it to open

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News | 19 October 2016

Mfuleni land occupied following dispute

Backyarders frustrated at delays

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News | 19 October 2016