Community blames loadshedding for deaths of young couple in shack fire

Police are investigating as several other shacks were also destroyed, leaving some families homeless

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Brief | 12 September 2022

It’s time to flip the housing delivery model on its head

The future of affordable housing is about the enabling state

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Opinion | 12 September 2022

Former UCT student named on rapist list wins damages

The woman who wrongfully put the student’s name on the widely circulated list must pay R300,000 in damages and medical bills

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Law | 9 September 2022

Mbalula sticking to December deadline to fully open Cape Town’s Central Line

An agreement has been signed with communities occupying the railway line

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Brief | 9 September 2022

Fed up with poor service, hundreds march to Eskom office in Khayelitsha

Residents want workers to return to the local office and for Eskom to fix high mast lights, transformers and faulty street lights in the community.

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News | 8 September 2022

New library brings hope to Wolwerivier

Families in the tin settlement 30km from Cape Town have access to books at last

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News | 8 September 2022

Civil society criticises Gender Commission box-ticking exercise

Organisations say the period for public comment on selection of commissioners is inadequate

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News | 7 September 2022

City intensifies operations against unlicensed amaphela taxis

SANCO intervenes to try and end the unrest and impasse with law enforcement agencies

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News | 6 September 2022

Taxi drivers burn streets of Hout Bay

Amaphela are demanding that the City compensate them for loss of income since MyCiTi started operating

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News | 5 September 2022

Protesters slam ninth postponement in murder case

“The investigating officer messed up and the state needs to take accountability” says Funeka Soldaat

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News | 5 September 2022

River Club construction carries on amidst court delays

Observatory Civic Association says development is violating a court interdict

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News | 5 September 2022

Seven arrested as taxi protest escalates in Cape Town

Nearly a dozen police vehicles, buses and cars have been torched during violent retaliation allegedly by amaphela drivers

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News | 2 September 2022

Women’s Assembly holds sit-in after funding cut

Tshisimani Centre apologises

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Brief | 31 August 2022

Meet Dunoon’s gardeners with disabilities

“Some have hands, some have legs and some have ideas”

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Brief | 30 August 2022

Turn Sea Point plot into social housing, say activists

Two years after the Tafelberg sale was overturned, progress has stalled. Now the provincial government says it may want to use the land “in the public interest”.

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News | 30 August 2022