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Here is the status of Cape Town’s water supply projects

City promises to engage with UCT scientists over concerns about drilling into the Table Mountain Group aquifer

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News | 2 March 2018

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Quarrel over Sarah Baartman sculpture at UCT

Librarian removes covering that students had placed over Willie Bester’s artwork

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News | 2 March 2018

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Cape Town is paying for national government failures, say officials

Ian Neilson warns that Day Zero is still possible: water consumption needs to drop to 450 million litres daily

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News | 1 March 2018

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Cape Town church calls for decriminalisation of sex work

“Jesus was the first to decriminalise sex work” says church banner

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News | 1 March 2018

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Court battle over Zimbabwean children in SA custody

Parents seek urgent interdict to stop deportation

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News | 1 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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Spat over water on Drakenstein farm

Owner reconnects water supply to families after complaints

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News | 27 February 2018

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Proposed Foreshore development compared to apartheid

Suspended City official slammed affordable housing plan

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News | 27 February 2018

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Ramaphosa’s “most important people”

GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament

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News | 27 February 2018