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Grants available for refugee organisations

A number of community-based refugee organisations in Cape Town are racing to meet the deadline for a project rolled out last year by the European Union

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News | 2 February 2016

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UCT students and staff share stories of exclusion

Management promises staff contracts by the end of the week

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News | 2 February 2016

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Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof

It's because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

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Outspoken residents fear for their lives in Isiqalo

Zukisa August ambushed on his way home from work

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News | 1 February 2016

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Sick pets get a free lift in Vrygrond

Mobile clinic makes a huge difference for pet owners in working class neighbourhoods

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News | 1 February 2016

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Ward 69: Fragmented by apartheid era planning

This area will be closely contested in the Municipal elections

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Feature | 1 February 2016

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World leaders fail to face our biggest economic crisis

No change in mindset at World Economic Forum in Davos means job losses will continue

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Opinion | 1 February 2016

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Protesters demand Atlantis school be made safe

But minister says action has already been taken

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Brief | 29 January 2016

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Walter Sisulu students evicted from campus

Students have many grievances, but their leadership is fractured

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News | 29 January 2016

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The scrap collectors

Across the city there are people who survive by collecting things we throw away

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Photo Essay | 29 January 2016

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Hundreds still homeless in Masiphumelele

Grandmother describes how she had to sleep rough

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News | 28 January 2016

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Churches plead with residents to stop dumping rubbish

Illegal dumping costs Cape Town R350 million a year

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News | 28 January 2016

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Softball body battling to keep its head above water

R100k needed to send Cape Town teams to national competition

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News | 28 January 2016

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How a rural hospital has become a model of good care

If all hospitals were like this we could implement National Health Insurance tomorrow

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Opinion | 28 January 2016

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CPUT students challenge suspensions in court

Application brought to change interdict against them

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News | 27 January 2016

Quiet walk home turns into nightmare for Malawians

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Asylum-seeker spends six weeks in prison

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