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Soccer: Protest disrupts Safa Cape Town Coca Cola Cup
At the semi-finals of the woman’s leg of the Safa Cape Town Coca Cola Cup, the Saxon United Ladies team from Heideveld protested on one of the fields where a semi-final match between RV United from Khayelitsha and Phoenix Spurs from Bonteheuwel was about to start.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 15 September 2014
Khayelitsha cleaners fed up with not getting paid on time
Every month since January, Khayelitsha’s refuse collectors and street cleaners in QA and PJS Section go in large groups to camp outside the supervisor’s office so they can get what is due to them.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 15 September 2014
Waiting for hours in tax queues
Filing income tax manually at a South African Revenue Service (SARS) branch can be a day’s mission, involving hours of travel and standing in a queue.
Johnnie Isaac, Joyce Xi and Thembela Ntongana
News | 15 September 2014
Salt River “improvement” deprives car guards of income
Car guards outside the Old Biscuit Mill have been left without an income after the newly operational Salt River Business Improvement District (SRBID) told them to leave.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 12 September 2014
Disabled and living in a shack
Regina Mahlombe is 64. She has become bed-ridden as a result of being stabbed by muggers in Gugulethu when she was 21. She yearns to leave her shack for a proper home.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 12 September 2014
Young dancer gets scholarship but has no funds to stay in US
Local dancer Aviwe November will soon be heading to the United States where he has been awarded a two-year scholarship with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco.
Barbara Maregele
News | 12 September 2014
Bafana Bafana - start of a winning streak?
On Wednesday, Bafana Bafana’s new intake of youngsters played their second game, this time against African champions Nigeria at Cape Town stadium, leaving over 30,000 supporters with huge smiles. The game ended in a goalless draw, but with Bafana on second spot with six points in Group A of the African Nations Cup Qualifiers.
Siyabonga Kalipa
News | 12 September 2014
Six-year-old and siblings survive by begging for food
A kid known as Didi, who is six, walks the Nyanga streets asking people for bread and for money to buy sweets and chips. Didi says that sometimes he sleeps without eating; when he wakes up, he and his siblings have to go and look for food.
Pharie Sefali
News | 12 September 2014