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Western Cape storms: “worse is still to come”
Schools to close across the province as another storm hits, with about 15,000 people already severely affected by floods and damaging winds
By Sandiso Phaliso, Vincent Lali, Marecia Damons, Ashraf Hendricks, Liezl Human and Peter Luhanga
News | 10 July 2024
Army destroys shacks in Marievale, leaving families homeless
Lawyers for Human Rights plans to go to court again
News | 10 July 2024
Thousands of homes flooded as violent storm batters Western Cape
Roads closed, schools and clinics damaged, rivers burst their banks
By Sandiso Phaliso, Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons
News | 9 July 2024
Kariega flood victims forced to move back to sodden land
Residents of Old Lapland informal settlement protested against returning as they fear the dam wall above them will burst
News | 9 July 2024
Butterworth families evicted by chiefs in 2011 are still waiting for promised houses
People of Bhungeni were moved to make way for a mall which has still not been built
News | 9 July 2024
Exhibition honours work of late Bang Bang Club photojournalist
Ken Oosterbroek’s “photographs will bring awareness to the importance of photography in the creation of our collective historical record” says curator
News | 9 July 2024
City of Cape Town buys occupied Marikana land seven years after landmark ruling
Last week Eskom disconnected over 300 illegal connections in the settlement. Hours later people connected them again.
News | 8 July 2024
Gauteng social development department wants to buy a building but doesn’t know what for
Up to R70-million budgeted for building in central Pretoria
By Raymond Joseph and Joseph Bracken
News | 8 July 2024
Last 100 Paradise Park residents in Hermanus evicted
Decade-long battle to stave off eviction comes to an end
News | 5 July 2024