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Students and workers shut down CPUT

Clashes occurred between protesters and police, and campus activities were suspended after over a thousand students and a number of workers picketed and sang outside the administration building of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Bellville.

Thembela Ntongana

News | 13 November 2015

Addo residents demand that โ€œkillerโ€ canal be closed

Residents of Paterson, Addo, Bersheba, Uitenhage and Thornhill have threatened to close down the Sundays River Valley Municipality in Addo if a canal which they say is killing their children is not closed within seven days.

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Siphesihle Matyila

News | 13 November 2015

Fire leaves over 200 Hout Bay residents homeless - here’s how you can help

Fire spread through Imizamo Yethu informal settlement at about noon on Thursday. Over 200 people have been left homeless, after more than 30 shacks burnt.

Juliette Garms

News | 13 November 2015

Arrested UWC students make bail

Fifteen protesters arrested yesterday during the standoff between students and police at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) were released this afternoon on R3,000 bail each, after their supporters managed to raise the R45,000 in total bail money in about an hour.

Ashleigh Furlong

News | 12 November 2015

Masiphumelele will get a police station - when it’s safe

Masiphumelele residents who have been promised a new mobile police station will have to wait until the police decide itโ€™s safe to install it.

Thembela Ntongana

News | 12 November 2015

Vrygrond’s Communiversity: offering young people a choice

Since the Communiversity opened its doors in Vrygrond in 2012, nearly 200 young people have graduated with new skills, ranging from maths to first aid and food gardening.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 12 November 2015

Blikkiesdorp families want to move again

Some of the families who accepted an offer from the City of Cape Town to move from Blikkiesdorp to Wolwerivier in September, say they want to move again.

Bernard Chiguvare

News | 12 November 2015

UWC shut down

There was utter chaos at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) on Wednesday when riot police clashed with student protesters and used rubber bullets, stun grenades and teargas. Ashraf Hendricks documents the day-long standoff where a building was set alight, fires started and rocks thrown at police and private security. The protests were triggered by an email from the Chairperson of Council, which criticised the #FeesMustFall movement and said the protesters needed to engage with the SRC in order to have a special council meeting.

Photos by Ashraf Hendricks

News | 12 November 2015

iQhayiya students reject Department’s answers to their demands

About 150 students from iQhayiya High School in Khayelitsha marched to the Western Cape Department of Education to demand an answer from the acting deputy director, Benjamin Schereka, to their list of demands.

Thembela Ntongana

News | 11 November 2015

UWC students clash with police

Chaos erupted at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) today as police used rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades against students protesting against the stand taken by the head of the university council.

Ashleigh Furlong

News | 11 November 2015

Waste pickers protest over access to dump site

Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades today against waste pickers protesting at a dump site in Pietermaritzburg against plans to stop them collecting on the site.

Ntombi Mbomvu

News | 11 November 2015

Elderly should get houses first, Mfuleni residents tell government

Residents of Garden City in Mfuleni braved chilly weather on Tuesday evening to voice their demands about housing to provincial government representatives.

Siyavuya Khaya

News | 11 November 2015

No buses for stranded Metrorail passengers

Every weekday morning, Kungile Mzwakadi, a 48-year-old security guard working in the city centre, takes the 5:20am train from Langa to Cape Town. For his journey to and from work, Mzwakadi spends R150 on a monthly train ticket.

Sibusiso Tshabalala

News | 11 November 2015

How Willowvale women live in fear of rape

Willowvale resident No-Italy Gola, 54, used a machete to fight off the man who tried to rape her. Many other women have not managed to thwart their attackers in this town where at least two rapes are reported to the police each week.

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

News | 11 November 2015

Westlake residents frustrated by stalled murder investigation

Westlake residents are angry at the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of Malawian Alfred Fonde on 8 March 2015.

Tariro Washinyira

News | 10 November 2015

The Cool Kids of Khayelitsha

Playlisted on many radio stations across the country and igniting stages in Cape Town, the Cool Kids are a Khayelitsha-based four-man crew combining DJ skills, music producing and event management. What is more, they have done it their own way.

Zethu Gqola

News | 10 November 2015