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Western Cape government confronts City of Cape Town over “appalling unhygienic” conditions in Dunoon

City says it has “a service delivery obligation but is not itself the cause of the pollution”

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News | 14 November 2019

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Site C residents demand a police station

“We had a mobile police station about three years ago, which disappeared a year ago”

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News | 14 November 2019

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Prisoner alleging torture at Leeuwkop sticks to his story under cross-examiniation

“What I’m telling the court today is what happened”

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News | 14 November 2019

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Protest at school after two educators dismissed for awarding fraudulent marks

“They acted dishonestly and we abide by the decision” says WCED spokesperson

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News | 14 November 2019

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Makhanda High Court orders MEC to improve sanitation in school

Judgment follows six years of petitioning Department of Education for new toilets

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News | 13 November 2019

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Community volunteers try to keep Gugulethu safe

Some Asijiki neighbourhood watch patrollers have been shot at

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News | 13 November 2019

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Patel’s spokesman dodges questions on Lottery

GroundUp told to rather focus on investment conference

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News | 13 November 2019

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“Even the rats don’t feel safe in this school”

Port Elizabeth school battles gangs, neglect

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News | 13 November 2019

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Mitchells Plain store owner given two weeks to respond to Equality Court

Store manager says shop owner might leave the country soon

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News | 12 November 2019

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Uber owner claims extortion by taxi drivers - in the police station

Cape Town might soon witness an e-hailing war, says association

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News | 12 November 2019

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Leeuwkop prisoner says officials gave him electric shocks in showers

“You feel like you can die”

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News | 12 November 2019

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Barred from school by high transport costs

Cottonlands parents demand their own high school

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News | 12 November 2019

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Extinction Rebellion calls Africa Oil Week delegates “climate criminals”

Activists are demanding that government declare a “climate and ecological emergency”

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News | 8 November 2019

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Suspended PRASA security manager to be reinstated

CCMA finds Ernest Hendricks was unfairly treated

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News | 8 November 2019

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The long wait for new housing for Blikkiesdorp families

Symphony Way development will take years to complete

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News | 8 November 2019

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Townships organise private security to do police work

Households contribute R150 each for neighbourhood watches in Musina

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News | 8 November 2019