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Rhodes Must Fall protesters burn UCT art

Fires set and students arrested in protests over accommodation shortage

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News | 17 February 2016

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Vegetable gardens critical for school feeding schemes

Khayelitsha Schools benefit from having own food gardens

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News | 16 February 2016

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Interview with Shaeera Kalla of #FeesMustFall

Current university model "anti-poor and anti-black" she says

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Interview | 16 February 2016

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UCT Students protest against accommodation shortage

Administration says it is short of 700 beds

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News | 15 February 2016

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Immigrant children denied access to school

Dozens of children in Diepsloot turned away over documentation

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News | 15 February 2016

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Ambitious project to teach rural people to code

Non-profit is offering a free course to anyone who shows programming aptitude

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News | 15 February 2016

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Minimum wages: too high will hurt poor people

At Cosatu's demand of R4,500 per month, we risk increasing unemployment

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Opinion | 15 February 2016

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Zuma's national minimum wage "own goal"

President is placating business and wavering on policy

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Opinion | 15 February 2016

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Khayelitsha school students want answers

Students sit without teachers

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News | 12 February 2016

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New tv series tells story of woman boxer

Thirteen-episode drama is on Friday nights at 8:30pm

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News | 12 February 2016

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Outsmarting shack fires

Four fires a day are reported in informal settlements. Reblocking might curb the devastation.

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News | 12 February 2016

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Klipheuwel residents insist destroyed shacks were occupied

City of Cape Town and residents contradict each other

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News | 12 February 2016

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Wild Coast battle to save land from mining

We will die for our land, say angry Xolobeni villagers as dune mining looms

Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Paul Botes (with permission of the Mail & Guardian)

News | 12 February 2016

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Khayelitsha Technical School students demand to be taught

Students march on provincial offices

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News | 11 February 2016

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PE school shutdown suspended

Parents set deadline for provincial education department

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News | 11 February 2016

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Metrorail’s skorokoro trains

Here’s why the trains are delayed every day

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News | 11 February 2016

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