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Long queues for Covid-19 relief grants
Post Office urges people to wait for an SMS confirming funds are available
News | 14 July 2020
With no toilet, Wallacedene man has to watch over his mother-in-law while she uses a field
City of Cape Town says it recently delivered chemical toilets and standpipes will soon be installed
By Vincent Lali
News | 14 July 2020
“Mfuleni residents are tired of seeing the City relocate residents from other townships”
City has condemned the occupation of its Bosasa housing project
By Vincent Lali
News | 13 July 2020
Midvaal occupation is no race war, say landowners
“The Elandsfontein landowners are a diverse group of people from all race groups”
News | 13 July 2020
Cape storm leaves hundreds without “toilets”
“Flood victims now shit in buckets inside their shacks and empty them into the dam. I do the same.”
By Vincent Lali
News | 13 July 2020
“Empty promises by housing officials” trigger protests in Despatch
“It is easy for this government to shoot at us when we protest. But it is difficult to give us the houses we were promised since 2015”
News | 13 July 2020
Homes demolished as storm hits Cape Town
Five shacks in Vrygrond were demolished on a rainy Thursday afternoon
News | 11 July 2020
“Illegal strike” says department as teachers down tools at Kraaifontein school
Teachers say they are fed up with working conditions under Covid-19
By Vincent Lali
News | 10 July 2020
“We lived better on the farms” says evictee
Families tell of hardship since being relocated from a farm to an informal settlement in Wellington
By Liezl Human
News | 10 July 2020