These families have no toilets, but sewage from other people’s toilets flows past their homes

Riverside informal settlement is built on a floodplain, says City of Cape Town, so services can’t be provided

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News | 18 June 2025

Youngsters own the street for Youth Day

Sydney Street in Mowbray was cordoned off for children to play

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Photo Essay | 17 June 2025

Home Affairs has left a quarter of a million people waiting years for birth certificates

The Children’s Institute has taken government to court over its late birth registration backlog

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Law | 17 June 2025

Cape Town mothers in silent march for Gaza

Israel has blocked food from entering Gaza and killed more than 200 people at distribution points

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Brief | 14 June 2025

Document goes missing in police torture case

Magistrate reprimands lawyers

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Brief | 12 June 2025

Four children shot dead in three weeks in Samora Machel

All the victims were in school uniform when they were gunned down

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Brief | 12 June 2025

New border control plan could harm asylum seekers, say critics

The One-Stop Border Post Bill aims to speed up trade and travel, but critics say protection for immigrants is inadequate

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News | 11 June 2025

Rotten rat park gets rescued

Dunoon children get a safe playground at last

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Brief | 11 June 2025

No money to upgrade Cape Town’s rundown hostels

We visited hostels in Gugulethu which were overcrowded and falling apart

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News | 10 June 2025

SIU finds work paid for but not done on critical water infrastructure

Criminal investigations, civil litigation, lifestyle audits, and disciplinary action loom large as SIU probes dodgy water sector contracts

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Parliament | 5 June 2025

Judge slams Home Affairs for “unintelligible, illogical babble” in gay case

Immigration official rejected the asylum application of a man from Chad who was imprisoned solely for homosexuality

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Law | 4 June 2025

Sex workers offer justice department help

Activists want the decriminalisation bill to be fast tracked

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Brief | 3 June 2025

Paramedics protest in Mfuleni, following attacks

“We are now working closer with the police and the community to make sure that the emergency services workers are protected at all costs”

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Brief | 2 June 2025

Debate over future of social grants

Black Sash argues they are a vital safety net but economist questions their viability

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News | 30 May 2025

Protesters try to block Cape Town’s Central Line

The group lives on the rail reserve along Stock Road in Philippi East and is demanding that PRASA move them to permanent accommodation

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Brief | 29 May 2025

One in four South Africans don’t have enough food. Activists call for action

Union Against Hunger shines light on the right to food

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Brief | 29 May 2025