Government

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Engcobo residents demand mayor step down

Community organisations allege corruption, demand municipality be put under administration

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Brief | 18 May 2018

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Call to dissolve KZN Premier’s health intervention team

Employees say conditions at head office have become unbearable

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Brief | 8 May 2018

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City of Cape Town clamps down on illegal extensions to houses

More than 100 property entrepreneurs in Dunoon face prosecution

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News | 8 May 2018

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Western Cape government fails to explain security contract

GroundUp has now submitted a request under the access to public information act

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Brief | 7 May 2018

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End to seven-month strike by Port St Johns municipal workers

Garbage piled up in town, turning away tourists

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News | 24 April 2018

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Hout Bay residents have title deeds but no houses

Bureaucratic bungling has left dozens in limbo for 13 years

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News | 24 April 2018

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Colchester’s roads still in a mess, six months after contractor was fired

Some workers have not been fully paid

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News | 17 April 2018

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Durban residents demand speed bumps on deadly road

Blockade after child hurt in accident at the weekend

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Brief | 4 April 2018

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Controversial land deal comes back to haunt Hermanus

Madikizela promises protesters a piece of Schulphoek land

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News | 28 March 2018

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Public pools unused while children drown in canal

Residents of Kirkwood want public swimming areas opened

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Brief | 12 March 2018

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Why we woke up Brett Herron at 5am with koesiesters

People evicted from their homes cannot be dumped in Blikkiesdorp or Wolwerivier

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Opinion | 7 March 2018

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Housing picket outside Brett Herron’s home

Herron says Wolwerivier is all the City can offer for now

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News | 6 March 2018

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Grand Parade Traders squeezed by City

Barricades in preparation for cycle tour are ruining business while vendors still have to pay rent

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Brief | 6 March 2018

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Foreshore development was one of the reasons for De Lille fallout

Plans pushed through by senior official, claims mayor’s executive director

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News | 26 February 2018

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Imizamo Yethu library closed for repairs for two years and counting

The City made it sound like it would be operational in no time, says community leader

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Brief | 23 February 2018

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Mining communities slam government’s “elite deal” with Chamber of Mines

Presidency promises they will be included in future negotiations on mining charter

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News | 21 February 2018