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Toilet mess in Khayelitsha - SJC demands service delivery contracts

The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is demanding access to information on service delivery agreements in Khayelitsha.This follows the breakdown of some outdoor toilets which the organisation fears is a result of the service delivery organisation contracted by the City failing to do its job.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

News

Two children killed by illegal connections

Andile Duvane was electrocuted on Wednesday 13 March while playing soccer with his friends. He stepped on open electrical wires outside Metrorail's substation at the RR section in Khayelitsha.

Mary-jane Matsolo

Equal Education to hold public meeting on minimum norms and standards for schools

For the past three years, education activist organisation, Equal Education, has been campaigning for the adoption of a policy called the Minimum Norms and Standards for School Infrastructure.

Nokubonga Yawa

From thugs to recruits

A centre in Hanover Park is helping gangsters turn their lives around.

Margo Fortune

Opinion

In crisis times, symbiosis can trump the adversarial

South Africa\xe2\x80\x99s annual wage bargaining \xe2\x80\x94 some say, strike \xe2\x80\x94 season has begun. In a series of conferences this week, the various sides got together to decide on their strategies and to plan the tactics they intend to follow as the hard talking gets underway.

Terry Bell

Critics of porn should look at themselves

Last week ICASA heard an application from TopTv to broadcast adult content, or what most us simply call porn. The application is strongly opposed by religious groups and COSATU.

Gareth Dawson and Nathan Geffen

Apartheid: South Africa's history, Palestine's reality?

This is an edited version of remarks made by Doron Isaacs at an event hosted by the UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum for Israel Apartheid Week 2013. The other panelists, who spoke prior to Isaacs, were Professor Andrew Nash and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.

Doron Isaacs

Sport

“Don't play to make the headlines”, advises Bafana Bafana's Dino Ndlovu

Dino Ndlovu, the 23-year-old striker from Klerksdorp, will play for Bafana Bafana on Saturday in their crucial World Cup qualifying game against the Central African Republic at the Cape Town stadium.

Margo Fortune

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