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Kraaifontein residents protest about living conditions

Lists of demands handed over to City of Cape Town, Western Cape health department and SAPS

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Brief | 28 August 2025

Limpopo stadium still unfinished after ten years

R30-million has already been spent

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Brief | 28 August 2025

Fed-up with unresponsive officials, Gqeberha protesters torch trucks

Second day of protests by shack dwellers in Westville

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Commuters stranded in Somerset West amid deadly taxi violence

At least five people dead as tensions between CATA and CODETA boil over

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Brief | 27 August 2025

SASSA to bring in biometrics for all social grant applications from September

The plan is to curb fraud and speed up processes

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Brief | 27 August 2025

A decade and millions of rands later, Eastern Cape community centre still incomplete

Tsomo multi-purpose facility was meant to take nine months to build

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Gqeberha protesters torch bus, stone truck, demanding electricity

Separate protests erupt in Westville and Bayland

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Brief | 27 August 2025

Informal settlement residents destroy sewage pump station

They threaten to prevent repairs to the station until their electricity is restored

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Brief | 26 August 2025

Tshwane reduces water truck deliveries to informal settlements

Water will now only be supplied on four days of the week

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Brief | 26 August 2025

Cape Cultural Collective aims to promote diversity in the arts

Standing ovation closes Women’s Month event

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Brief | 26 August 2025

Disability organisations protest against Dial-a-Ride cuts

City of Cape Town says it has to introduce cuts due to budget constraints

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Brief | 25 August 2025

Protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine held in Durban

Demonstrators demand Russia return Ukrainian children

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Brief | 25 August 2025

Medical refrigeration vehicle found transporting cement

Lesotho health ministry has suspended the driver

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Brief | 25 August 2025

Khayelitsha residents protest removal of illegal connections by Eskom

Residents of New Monwabisi Park want their illegal connections temporarily formalised while they await electrification

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Brief | 22 August 2025

Cape Town council approves social housing at “Fruit and Veg” site

237 social housing units are planned

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Brief | 22 August 2025

Teachers’ march disrupts schooling in Free State

Hundreds of SADTU members marched to the Thabo Mofutsanyana education offices to demand that the district director step down

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Brief | 22 August 2025