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Khayelitsha’s up and coming pantsula dancer

Sizwe Nguqe has been dancing since 1994

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Feature | 22 October 2017

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Diving for abalone among the great white sharks

Impoverished Gansbaai residents risk death to supply illicit trade

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Feature | 11 October 2017

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Gugulethu residents fight eviction

Cape Town Community Housing Company says residents owe money

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Feature | 9 October 2017

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Township boxing academy trains champions

Duncan Village gym operates from one room in an old building

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Feature | 6 October 2017

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Fishing quotas killed Waylon, say Hawston residents

25-year-old drowned trying to learn to dive for abalone

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Feature | 20 September 2017

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R66 million paid out to former miners with silicosis

Q(h)ubeka Trust reports back after first 16 months

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Feature | 14 September 2017

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Marikana: Lonmin’s dodgy housing record

GroundUp inquiry reveals painfully slow pace of construction

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Feature | 4 September 2017

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Being a refugee and a lesbian is difficult, says Somali woman

“I felt like I was in a cage”

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Feature | 30 August 2017

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“Drugs is a fight that we will never win”

Part three of our series on vigilantism in South Africa

Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.

Feature | 29 August 2017

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“They say we are assaulting people. We say we are blessing them.”

Part two of a three part series on vigilantism in South Africa

Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.

Feature | 25 August 2017

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“People call us before they call the police”: a vigilante group’s quest for legitimacy

Part one of a three part series on vigilantism in South Africa

Text by Christopher Clark. Photos by Shaun Swingler.

Feature | 22 August 2017

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Epileptic, asthmatic and on the streets

All Cassiem Johnson wants is a house

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Feature | 21 August 2017

Mxolisi Zondo earns R1,500 a month herding cattle in urban Gauteng. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro

Herding cattle in urban Gauteng for R1,500 a month

Motorists taunt 23-year-old herdsman

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Feature | 15 August 2017

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What is government doing about Cape Town’s water crisis?

There are a number of projects underway, but it’s not yet clear if it’s enough

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Feature | 18 July 2017

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Robertson’s dumping ground for farm workers

Councillor threatens GroundUp after we ask questions

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Feature | 10 July 2017

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Black Sash and Net1 in war of words

Chaotic event in Ceres highlights problems with social grant system

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Feature | 14 June 2017