Articles for Mary-Anne Gontsana

Puppets bring the dangers of drugs to life

Ukwanda Puppet Collective on school tour

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Feature | 31 August 2018

Lighting for Marikana at last

Shack dwellers welcome switch-on of first high-mast light

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News | 22 August 2018

Workers commemorate Marikana in Cape Town and Johannesburg

Ex-miners say they are owed benefits

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News | 17 August 2018

Bureaucracy leaves Khayelitsha toilets uncleaned since last year

Because janitors don’t have inoculations residents live with shit

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News | 6 August 2018

If commuters thought Metrorail couldn’t get worse, it did this week

Cape Town’s central line is operating with eight train sets. It needs 33.

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News | 27 July 2018

#UniteBehind accuses Epping company of buying copper stolen from railways

SA Metal says its staff are trained to identify stolen material and to alert management immediately

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Brief | 26 July 2018

Cape Town’s neglected council flats

City says it will spend R147 million on upgrades to the rental units it owns

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Feature | 24 July 2018

Parkwood families await repairs to fire-ravaged council flats

Two council units in Parkwood burnt down in May and June. Residents were given containers to live in

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News | 10 July 2018

Cape Town residents wait days for ambulance

Stark divide between Bonnytoun’s coloured and black residents, but all await houses

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Feature | 6 July 2018

Occupiers take over Old Mutual property

Company says the flats and surrounding land were earmarked for a low-cost housing project

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News | 22 June 2018

Community confused why they don’t have electricity while their neighbours do

In the meanwhile, residents of RR Section in Khayelitsha use illegal connections

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News | 21 June 2018

We can’t house everyone, says Bonginkosi Madikizela

Housing backlog exceeds 575,000, but only 18,000 houses can be completed annually

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Brief | 15 June 2018

Gugulethu man blames City contractors for his crooked house

Mzwandile Mvumvu believes his house collapsed after work was done on sewage pipes outside

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News | 7 June 2018

Marikana settlement still waiting for floodlights

Residents say police find it too dark to patrol

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Brief | 25 May 2018

Minister attempts to reassure Parkwood backyarders

“So what do we do now? Do we take down the structures that are already up? If we do, where will we go?” asks land occupier

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News | 23 May 2018

Land occupiers in Parkwood say they’ve waited 16 years

MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela to meet backyard dwellers on Tuesday

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Brief | 21 May 2018