South Africa|Western Cape|Cape Town

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Loadshedding hits clinic waiting times

Patients say they queue for hours at Dunoon Community Health Centre in Cape Town

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News | 15 May 2023

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Philippi pair beat crime and Covid with fast-food business

Estratweni Mobile Foods bounced back from pandemic

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Feature | 15 May 2023

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Refugees say they fear death if they return to local communities

Nearly four years after the UNHCR protests, Bellville camp asylum seekers choose unsanitary camp conditions rather than face xenophobia and crime

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News | 12 May 2023

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Future of Cape Town City Ballet uncertain as dispute between CEO and board drags on

Board accused of “acting irregularly, un-procedurally, and illegally to push their CEO out”

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News | 12 May 2023

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Pensioners have to pay people to queue for them at Nyanga clinic

Patients at Nyanga Community Day Clinic says services have been deteriorating

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News | 11 May 2023

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Victims shot by gangs using “Prinsloo Guns” launch class action

Guns stolen by two police officers killed more than 1,000 people, Gun Free SA and nine families claim in court papers

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News | 10 May 2023

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Tenants of flagship Langa housing project mark township centenary in squalor

But the City of Cape Town says tenants of the N2 Gateway flats have refused to sign lease agreements, making maintenance impossible

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News | 8 May 2023

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Ratepayers get behind new Safe Space for homeless in Green Point

New overnight shelter should be complete by end of the year

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News | 5 May 2023

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Celebrating Langa through its artists

Founders of the township’s first art gallery have big plans for its future

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Feature | 28 April 2023

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Freedom Day in Philippi: gunshots, robberies and piles of rubbish

Crime has free rein in one of Cape Town’s poorest suburbs

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Feature | 27 April 2023

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Langa Centenary celebrations to kick off on Freedom Day

10km run to honour Makhosonke Fika, Langa’s legendary long-distance runner

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News | 26 April 2023

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Fixing Cape Town’s railways will save families nearly R1-billion a year

We cannot wait any longer to save the city’s train service

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Opinion | 25 April 2023

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PRASA’s decision to cancel railway security contracts “reckless and irresponsible” says SCOPA chair

Rail agency assures MPs that the Central Line in Cape Town would be fully operational by December

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News | 21 April 2023

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Last-minute delay to court hearing on eviction of homeless people on Cape Town’s streets

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa, representing about 120 homeless people, wants the City to provide “proper alternative accommodation”

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News | 19 April 2023

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Returning refugees swell numbers at Wingfield camp, with no solution in sight

Families refuse to return to communities in Cape Town or to go back to their countries of origin

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News | 19 April 2023

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Activists take Parliament to court over PRASA

#UniteBehind says Ethics Committee has failed to act

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Parliament | 18 April 2023