Articles for Vincent Lali

Families live in fear below high-voltage lines

Shack dwellers in Sondela informal settlement have no legal electricity, rubbish collection or toilets

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News | 8 November 2017

Attempted land occupation in Kraaifontein

Occupiers say they want the City to help them acquire land peacefully

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News | 6 November 2017

Volunteers protecting school children want to be paid

Western Cape government says it will try to find funds to support the initiative

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News | 23 October 2017

Mfuleni parents storm out of meeting with education department

Parents and principal say new school was promised for 2017, while officials say they must wait until 2021

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News | 13 October 2017

Mfuleni parents demand a new school with better security

100 desks and 100 chairs stolen during holidays

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News | 12 October 2017

New school for Khayelitsha

Zwelitsha families to be moved to make way for school

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Brief | 12 October 2017

Marikana community “tired” of begging for police protection

Dan Plato says it’s up to the City of Cape Town to install lights on the border of the informal settlement

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Brief | 9 October 2017

Police don’t listen to us, Marikana residents tell Mbalula

Minister promises extra resources to crime-torn settlement

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News | 3 October 2017

Marikana: the situation is under control, says Plato

Police announce two arrests

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News | 2 October 2017

Hundreds protest against arrest of murder suspects in Philippi

Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who were demanding release of community patrol members

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News | 18 September 2017

Clashes in Khayelitsha following land occupation

“I have no source of income because I’m jobless but I have to pay R500 to my landlord monthly”

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News | 21 August 2017

Janitors struggle to cope with Wallacedene’s filthy toilets

City promises immunisation shots for workers and that all necessary equipment and chemicals will be delivered

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News | 24 July 2017

10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

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News | 19 July 2017

Where a house for one means homelessness for another

Many people have lost their backyard shacks after RDP houses built in Wallacedene

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News | 18 July 2017

Families in the dark waiting for Eskom

Many Wallacedene residents have been without electricity because of faulty installation

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News | 13 July 2017

Khayelitsha residents build “speed bumps” after man killed by speeding taxi

In protest they also blocked a main road with a shipping container

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Brief | 27 June 2017