Articles for Vincent Lali
Covid-19: It’s hard to wash your hands when 380 families share three taps
“If I use the one bucket of water to do laundry then I remain without water to cook and wash hands”
By Vincent Lali
News | 25 March 2020
Dozens of families spend night outside amid ongoing evictions
“They left us with nothing. I don’t know where I will go now” says Khayelitsha occupier
By Vincent Lali
News | 23 March 2020
“I don’t know where I will sleep or get money to buy materials to rebuild my shack”
The City of Cape Town acted on a court order at the weekend demolishing dozens of shacks
By Vincent Lali
News | 17 March 2020
Covid-19: Washing hands is not easy when you have no running water
“It’s easy to keep your hands clean when you stay in a house because you have a tap inside, but it’s difficult when you have to walk long, tiring distances to fetch water”
By Vincent Lali, James Stent, Nathan Geffen and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 12 March 2020
Khayelitsha neighbourhood watch patrollers ask government for support
We patrol around the township barehanded, say members
By Vincent Lali
News | 10 March 2020
Budget Day marked by protests and marches
Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights
By Ashraf Hendricks, Tariro Washinyira and Vincent Lali
News | 26 February 2020
Khayelitsha shack dwellers block busy road
Protesters want serviced sites but City of Cape Town says shacks were illegally erected on its land
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 25 February 2020
Couple dies in shack fire in Kraaifontein
Wallacedene shack dwellers say they had no water to extinguish the blaze
By Vincent Lali
News | 25 February 2020
Our children are not safe at school, picketers tell Western Cape Premier
Equal Education activists picketed Alan Winde’s state of the province address in Mitchells Plain
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 21 February 2020