Articles for Vincent Lali

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Sewage gushes out of drain in Khayelitsha

Shack dwellers say City of Cape Town is slow to respond to complaints

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Brief | 21 September 2023

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Tensions between residents of houses and shacks spill over into violence in Cape Town

Siyakhana shack dwellers accuse Mandela Park residents of attacking them

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News | 5 September 2023

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Cape Town households call for electricity tariffs to be reduced

City says NERSA’s 15% tariff recommendation would lead to a shortfall of R500-million for 2023/24

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News | 28 August 2023

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Canoeist brothers clean up Khayelitsha wetland

Hours spent every week removing invasive water hyacinth and rubbish

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News | 24 August 2023

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Housing activists march to President’s doorstep

The existing State Land Disposal Act could be used to fast track the use of public land for human settlement

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News | 23 August 2023

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Families flee Cape Town informal settlements under threat

Nearby backyarders hope for houses, though the City of Cape Town says the land is “lost” for housing

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News | 18 August 2023

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Learners treated to drumming, art and a walk through of Langa’s iconic history

Community leader Alfred Magwaca says more Langa Centenary celebration events have been planned for the coming weeks

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Brief | 11 August 2023

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Jobless residents clean up rubbish dumps in Nyanga East

Volunteers work from 9am to 1pm on weekdays

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Brief | 8 August 2023

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Lives of poor and working class people upended by violent taxi strike

“Ordinary people like me are the ones suffering” says patient as clinic services impacted by taxi strike

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News | 4 August 2023

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Six family members, including three children, die in Khayelitsha shack fire

One person is still being treated in hospital for life-threatening burns

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News | 31 July 2023

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Over 1,000 shack dwellers protest: “We are tired of living in squalor”

City of Cape Town accused of “persistent failure to collect rubbish ” in informal settlements

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News | 21 July 2023

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Two die in Khayelitsha shack fire

Victims of Blowy informal settlement fire were meant to have been relocated

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News | 10 July 2023

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Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest

SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha

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News | 6 July 2023

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Health workers protest at Lentegeur hospital

Unhappiness over payments and workers left jobless

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Brief | 29 June 2023

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Woman allocated an RDP house years ago still lives in a shack

Bomkazi Sitela’s RDP house in Mandela Park was illegally occupied

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Brief | 29 June 2023

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Khayelitsha residents fed up with years of delays in housing project

Planning for the Taiwan informal settlement upgrade started in August 2018 and construction of 4,500 “housing opportunities” will only begin next year

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Brief | 27 June 2023