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N2 Highway: communities were not consulted, court told

Department of Environmental Affairs accused of unfair procedure

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News | 5 December 2018

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Housing activists remove their shacks from inner city prime land

Court order brings housing protest in Cape Town CBD to an abrupt end on Tuesday night

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News | 5 December 2018

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Informal miners risk their lives to make R25 from a wheelbarrow of coal

Villagers dig for coal in Newcastle

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Brief | 5 December 2018

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PRASA spent millions on automated gates that don’t work

Lucky Montana used the 2010 World Cup to justify a closed tender for the gates, but work on them only began months after the event finished, according to the Public Protector

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News | 5 December 2018

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When can a landlord evict law-abiding tenants to renovate?

More than 50 tenants of a derelict building in Hillbrow have taken their landlord to the Constitutional Court

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Law | 5 December 2018

About 100 Reclaim the City supporters and members protest on a piece of land labeled "SiteB" in the Foreshore.

Housing activists build shacks on prime inner-city land

“We are serious about decent and well-located affordable housing,” say protesters

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News | 4 December 2018

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Appeal Court strikes down infamous locomotive contract

Former CEO Lucky Montana misled PRASA board, says court

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Law | 4 December 2018

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Residents of informal settlement block new housing project

Kanana families want to be housed on site

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News | 4 December 2018

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Court hears objections to new N2 highway

New Wild Coast route shortens road by 75km but passes through ancestral land

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News | 4 December 2018

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Fire victims at Overcome Heights want electricity and water restored

It has been a month since a fire displaced 800 people

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Brief | 3 December 2018

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Be patient, Home Affairs tells Zimbabweans awaiting permits

Visa processing company expected to finish its work by end of January

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News | 3 December 2018

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Children with HIV not prioritised by pharmaceutical industry

HIV positive babies and children are receiving suboptimal treatment putting them at risk for resistance and treatment failure according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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News | 3 December 2018

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More sea cliffs collapse at West Coast mine

Mining company submits final application for massive expansion in the area

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News | 3 December 2018

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Court spells out to SANDF how it must accommodate Marievale residents

But application that the army is in contempt of a previous court order fails

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News | 3 December 2018

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Safe Space helping to reintegrate Cape Town’s homeless

“They can help you, but it’s entirely up to you if you want to change your life”

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News | 3 December 2018

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Khayelitsha child care principals ask for fee increase

40 principals dressed in black protested outside the Department of Social Development

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