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Homes demolished as storm hits Cape Town

Five shacks in Vrygrond were demolished on a rainy Thursday afternoon

In photos: Storm causes flooding in Cape Town

The City’s Disaster Risk Management says flood kits, sand and milling will be provided to affected informal settlements

Lockdown in pictures - Day 106: Floods in the wetland settlements

How Ladles of Love makes millions of meals during lockdown

The organisation needs donations to continue coming in

“Illegal strike” says department as teachers down tools at Kraaifontein school

Teachers say they are fed up with working conditions under Covid-19

Lockdown in pictures - Day 105: Under water

Bulelani Qolani: What happened before he was dragged naked from his shack?

We have reviewed videos and interviewed witnesses

Dunoon’s potholed sewage-filled roads

City says it cannot maintain the streets due to continued unrest and threats to contractors

“Anti-social behaviour” could soon disqualify you from renting from the City

Public comment on draft housing allocation policy open till 21 July

Community health care workers protest in Khayelitsha

They are demanding to be integrated into the health department

Raising an autistic child in a shack

“He once disappeared and it gave us a fright. Now I have to stay and watch him all the time.”

Lockdown in pictures - Day 104: Line of duty

Judge rebukes Cape Town refugee centre

DRC asylum seeker was not given adequate reasons for refusal of application

Glenn Sandler was 36 years old and healthy. Covid-19 plunged him into a coma for three weeks

Cape Town man slowly recovering after weeks on a ventilator

Lockdown in pictures - Day 103: Screening

Shack with a swimming pool and Table Mountain view

But Viziyalo Madola’s community still shares just one toilet