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CPUT students protest over accommodation

Exams cancelled after students enter hall

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Brief | 28 August 2017

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Swapping “rubbish” for food in Dunoon

Recycle Swop Shop offers unemployed residents an option

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News | 28 August 2017

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Police lack plan for stopping gangs

Second SAPS appearance before Parliament in two weeks not much more successful than first

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Parliament | 28 August 2017

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1Life to refund pensioner after unexplained policy deductions

“They said one of my children signed me up, but I have never heard of the person with that name”

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News | 28 August 2017

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Legality of Howell Street evictions questioned

“You cannot evict someone unless you have alternative accommodation, and these people have nowhere to go” says municipality official

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News | 25 August 2017

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Three years after the Khayelitsha Commission, has there been progress?

Western Cape Premier and SJC disagree on police track record

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News | 25 August 2017

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“They say we are assaulting people. We say we are blessing them.”

Part two of a three part series on vigilantism in South Africa

Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.

Feature | 25 August 2017

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Backyarder programme doesn’t go far enough, say Bellville South residents

Residents complain of living conditions in spite of City of Cape Town upgrade

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News | 25 August 2017

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Cape Town skyscraper to include “affordable” apartments - at R800,000 each

Buyers would have to earn at least R25,000 a month

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News | 25 August 2017

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No quick fix for Cape Town’s trains, commuters told

Western Cape operating at 60% of capacity

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News | 24 August 2017

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Cofimvaba parents forced to find teacher for their children

Eastern Cape education department has failed us, say families

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News | 24 August 2017

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Lavender Hill women share stories of abuse

“Go back and work on your marriage” magistrate told woman

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News | 24 August 2017

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PE deputy mayor breaks ranks on land occupation

Bobani tells residents the municipality was wrong

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News | 23 August 2017

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Should the state pay damages if a police officer hurts his partner?

The High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal reached different decisions. Now the Constitutional Court must decide.

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Law | 23 August 2017

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Province orders City of Cape Town to clean up Masiphumelele

City has failed to address “appalling” sanitary conditions, says province

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News | 23 August 2017

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City boots SASSA out of Witsand

Social grant beneficiaries now have to walk 10km

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Brief | 23 August 2017

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