South Africa|Western Cape|Cape Town

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Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest

SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha

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News | 6 July 2023

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Dunoon residents battle blaze from their shack roofs

Fire destroys 50 homes, leaving families in the biting cold

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Brief | 6 July 2023

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MPs furious that families have still not been moved off Cape Town’s railway tracks

SCOPA chair tells authorities to “shape up or ship out”

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News | 6 July 2023

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Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer

Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead

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News | 5 July 2023

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Cape Town’s Central Line will be fully operational before the end of March 2024, says PRASA

Relocation of people living along the track is still unresolved

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News | 5 July 2023

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UCT should not host anti-gay professor

Patrick Lumumba’s statements perpetuate lies about same-sex relationships in African history

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Opinion | 4 July 2023

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Man accused of robbery beaten and set alight in Samora Machel

This comes weeks after two men accused of crime were killed in Philippi

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News | 3 July 2023

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Which parts of Metrorail are still closed?

Although some lines have reopened thousands of commuters still have no train service

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Brief | 3 July 2023

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Rubbish in Delft overwhelms City of Cape Town response

City says it spends R300-million a year cleaning up illegal dumps but can’t make headway without community support

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Brief | 30 June 2023

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Health workers protest at Lentegeur hospital

Unhappiness over payments and workers left jobless

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Brief | 29 June 2023

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Woman allocated an RDP house years ago still lives in a shack

Bomkazi Sitela’s RDP house in Mandela Park was illegally occupied

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Brief | 29 June 2023

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An officer shot a homeless man. Two very different versions of what happened are being argued in court

Dumisani Joxo was shot “without warning”, witness tells the court

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News | 28 June 2023

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Farm worker unfairly dismissed after Swedish magazine interview

The Cape Town Labour Court has sent Claudine van Wyk’s case back to the CCMA

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Law | 28 June 2023

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Khayelitsha residents fed up with years of delays in housing project

Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year

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Brief | 27 June 2023

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Under water for two weeks: Cape Town’s Covid informal settlement

Residents fear disease could break out from the human waste in the water

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News | 26 June 2023

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Taps not tankers say land occupiers in Cape Town

“We are wary of using water from the tankers because of what happened in Hammanskraal”

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Brief | 23 June 2023