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Unhappiness with electricity costs ignites protests in Pietermaritzburg
On Monday, the Sobantu community in Pietermaritzburg took to the streets with burning tyres demanding that a prepaid electricity system rolled out in April 2014 be removed from their homes. Residents say the march came about because Msunduzi Municipality failed to attend a meeting with the residents as planned.
Ntombi Mbomvu
News | 21 July 2015
Mother of two disabled children barely coping
Nomahlubi Mbulu is 47. She lives in a house in Old Crossroads. She has three children, a 12-year-old girl, a 17-year-old daughter and a 20-year-old son. Her last born, Lilitha, and her eldest, Sibusiso, are both disabled. She is struggling to cope.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 21 July 2015
Dispute over jobs sparks protest in Barcelona informal settlement
A battle over jobs at Mawose Cleaning Services, contracted by the City of Cape Town to clean Barcelona informal settlement, sparked a protest which cut off a section of the N2 highway on Sunday night.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 20 July 2015
No more fish at “snoek point,
The fish seller at “snoek point” has been told by City authorities to move away from the busy road intersection of Spine and Eisleben Roads in Mitchell’s Plain.
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 17 July 2015
How Constitutional are the regulations on public gatherings?
Lobbyists and civil organisations who attended the City of Cape Town's information session on public gatherings this week believe that applying for permission to march is unconstitutional.
Barbara Maregele
News | 17 July 2015
MyCiTi buses phase out taxi services on West Coast
Minibus taxi services along the west coast are being displaced by the MyCiTi bus system. According to the City, 229 taxis have already been removed. By the end of August, no taxi services will be licensed to operate on MyCiTi bus routes in the Tableview and Dunoon area with the exception of the Ysterplaat Taxi Association which will operate until its licences expire. These are set to expire between 2016 and 2018.
Mariska Morris
News | 17 July 2015
Swanepoel yindoda!
Skin colour is a thing of the past, says a white man from East London, Gonubie area, who recently entered manhood in the Xhosa tradition.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 16 July 2015
21 at 21: The coming of age of a nation
In their newly released book, 21 at 21: The Coming of Age of a Nation, Melanie Verwoerd and Sonwabiso Ngcowa write that the term ‘born free’ is highly contested. ‘Many young people refuse to be labelled in this way, not least because of the level of poverty they still experience. As one ‘born free’ put it to us, “How can we be called born free when we live like this?”’
Melanie Verwoerd and Sonwabiso Ngcowa
News | 16 July 2015
Living in a graveyard
For the past few years, the old Jewish burial site located south of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town has become a home to a number of homeless people.
Siphesihle Matyila
News | 16 July 2015