Articles for Vincent Lali

Riot in Mfuleni follows shack removals

“I want to have my own place and stand on my own two feet because I’m an adult”

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News | 8 March 2018

Gugulethu occupiers call for City to buy land for them

“If the City builds double-storey flats here, about 700 homeless residents can get a place to stay”

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News | 5 March 2018

Church removed for shacks

Gugulethu land occupation continued over the weekend

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Brief | 26 February 2018

Overcrowding becoming “the norm” in some Western Cape schools

Provincial education department says it is under severe strain

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News | 22 February 2018

City demolishes shacks in Philippi

“It broke my heart to watch officials, who have places to stay, destroy my shack and leave with my building material”

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News | 20 February 2018

Philippi land occupiers describe desperation

Running battles between residents and police

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News | 19 February 2018

Raw sewage swamps houses in Kraaifontein

City said it would fix the problem last week

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News | 6 February 2018

City of Cape Town destroys new shacks on Khayelitsha land

Residents say they cleaned up an illegal dump to build their shacks

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News | 31 January 2018

“Jobless youth” move onto Khayelitsha land

“We want our own place where we can live in peace”

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News | 30 January 2018

Kraaifontein parents demand places in school for their children

Education department says parents registered late

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News | 23 January 2018

The Khayelitsha families who have to beg neighbours for toilets and electricity

Zusiphe Rwayi gets up at 3:30am to empty her bucket in the toilet of a nearby house

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News | 15 January 2018

Police shut down immigrant shops

We use the shop to survive because we are both jobless, says shopkeeper

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News | 8 January 2018

City promises Mfuleni shack dwellers toilets and electricity in 2018

45 families in Ligwa beg to use neighbours’ toilets

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News | 1 December 2017

Stink-up at Cape Flats school

“My stomach turns and I feel as if I’m about to vomit”

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News | 23 November 2017

Kraaifontein sports complex stripped by vandals

City says it will cost one million rand and take three years to restore

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Brief | 22 November 2017

Neighbours provide water and electricty to informal settlement

City of Cape Town says it’s assessing what is required for infrastructure in Nyunywini, Kraaifontein

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News | 13 November 2017