Articles for Thembela Ntongana

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Sixty-one-year-old man shot dead in protest

Eastern Cape residents want proper roads to their villages

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Brief | 20 March 2018

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Cape Town housing activist fatally stabbed

Latest of several violent incidents allegedly involving security guards at Helen Bowden Nurses Home

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News | 19 March 2018

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Masiphumelele riders join the Cape Town Cycle Tour

Songezo Jim’s cycling academy is struggling to find a principal sponsor

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News | 9 March 2018

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Mother tells of her child’s death in shack fire

Family unable to afford funeral for nine-year-old

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News | 8 March 2018

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“We are 52 students in one container”

Philippi students marched to Parliament to demand better school infrastructure and more teachers

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News | 6 March 2018

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Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

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Imizamo Yethu library closed for repairs for two years and counting

The City made it sound like it would be operational in no time, says community leader

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Brief | 23 February 2018

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Mining communities slam government’s “elite deal” with Chamber of Mines

Presidency promises they will be included in future negotiations on mining charter

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News | 21 February 2018

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Battle over mining rights in remote Eastern Cape villages

Mgungundlovu residents and government to meet in court in April

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Feature | 19 February 2018

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Two years later, still no arrests for murder of Xolobeni activist

Bazooka Rhadebe was gunned down outside his house in 2016

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News | 16 February 2018

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Hundreds left homeless by another fire in Hout Bay

Community members suspect arson

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News | 12 February 2018

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Women wait for work on the side of the road

“We cannot give up because we have children that depend on us.”

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News | 19 January 2018

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No shelters for homeless people in East London

Fourteen people live in a public toilet

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News | 18 January 2018

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Roadside artist uses tins to show life in informal settlements

I love using my hands, says William Mayere

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Feature | 11 January 2018

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Waiting by the roadside desperate for work

The official unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape has risen to over 32%

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News | 1 December 2017

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There is money to fix our schools, but it’s not being spent, says Equal Education

4,624 schools still have pit latrines

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News | 30 November 2017