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Khayelitsha taxi owners: crime-fighters or vigilantes?
Taxi owners and members of the Congress for Democratic Taxi Association (CODETA) have recently joined in to help curb the escalating crime and gangsterism in Khayelitsha by patrolling areas and doing search and seizures.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 May 2012
Moonlight Cocktail Party
Moonlight Productions organised a cocktail party for youth in Nyanga East to celebrate Freedom Day on Sunday night.
Mary-jane Matsolo
News | 2 May 2012
Education Minister opposes Equal Education court case
The Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, has filed a notice to oppose Equal Education’s (EE) court case for minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 24 April 2012
Rats, robbers and foul smells: Life on the Island
Residents of Island in Khayelitsha TR section have been terrorised by rats for more than a decade. Situated between a highway and a blocked drainage canal, the residents also have to deal with the stench that comes from the canal which is infested with mosquitoes.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 20 April 2012
Company’s HIV treatment claim condemned
Clinicians and AIDS workers have condemned Imuniti Holdings for claims it is making about its nutritional supplements. Henry Stassen, from Edge to Edge Investments, which distributes for Imuniti, says the company manufactures a nutritional pack that eradicates HIV.
Mary-Jane Matsolo
News | 19 April 2012
Maitland Home Affairs’ scary toilets
When GroundUp journalists visited Maitland Home Affairs, they noticed clients and their children struggling to hop into the portable toilets to avoid the stagnant water surrounding them.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 19 April 2012
Khayelitsha’s kid gangsters
“We are fighting for our freedom, our freedom to go anywhere we want to go in Khayelitsha,” says Latinyo, an 18-year-old grade 12 learner from Khayelitsha's H-section. He has been involved in gangs since the age of 12 and says he has lost count of how many murders he has committed.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 18 April 2012
Home Affairs office turns away asylum seekers because it runs out of paper
The Maitland office of Home Affairs is turning away asylum seekers daily because it is running out of paper.
Veronica Washaya
News | 17 April 2012
Disgruntled asylum seekers protest at Maitland Home Affairs
Hundreds of disgruntled asylum seekers, who have been turned away for several months without assistance, demonstrated on Friday at the Maitland Home Affairs premises.
Tariro Washinyira
News | 17 April 2012