Articles for Ashraf Hendricks

Covid-19: Lockdown hits informal traders

Many traders have no savings and without any income they don’t know how they will make it through the next 21 days

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News | 26 March 2020

Human Rights Commission asked to look at farm job losses and evictions

Seasonal farm worker says she was dismissed without full pay and told: “It’s because of the virus”

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News | 23 March 2020

Covid-19: Universities across the country close

Students asked to vacate residences at UCT

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News | 17 March 2020

Hanover Park resident: “There comes the army, there goes the army”

Nearly nine months after the army was deployed to the Cape Flats, what has changed?

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News | 13 March 2020

Report finds shocking violence against sex workers

101 female sex workers, some of them transwomen, died in the 2018/19 year. Half of them were murdered, says SWEAT report

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News | 6 March 2020

Refugees arrested during clashes in Cape Town

“We are dying in this country” says Somali man

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News | 2 March 2020

City acts against Greenmarket Square protesters

It remains to be seen if the nearly six-month long stand-off in central Cape Town has ended

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News | 1 March 2020

Metrorail comes to grinding halt because of unpaid electricity bill

PRASA owed ESKOM R4 million and was 34 days overdue

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Brief | 28 February 2020

Budget Day marked by protests and marches

Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights

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News | 26 February 2020

Protest theatre comes to the Waterfront

Cry of the Xcluded is a campaign against unemployment

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News | 24 February 2020

Triumph for amateur cast at the opera house

Don’t Miss Your Turning Point received a standing ovation on Saturday night at Artscape

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Photo Essay | 17 February 2020

“From the streets, to Hanover Park, to Artscape”

There will be one performance only of the play Don’t Miss Your Turning Point at Artscape on Saturday

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News | 13 February 2020

UWC students protest while classes are suspended

Some protesters are demanding registration for all students, regardless of whether or not they have paid fees

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Brief | 6 February 2020

UWC suspends classes after protests

Displaced students promised accommodation by end of week

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Brief | 5 February 2020

Cape Flats children show their athletics skills

“It’s where they can express themselves in a positive way instead of taking a gun”

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Photo Essay | 29 January 2020

50 to a class in Bishop Lavis primary school

Community and school come together to instill “values” in children

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Brief | 15 January 2020