South Africa|Western Cape|Cape Town

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Cape Town’s water recycling project should not be privatised

Comment on the proposed Faure New Water Scheme closes on 17 April

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Analysis | 16 April 2025

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Police unable to interview Cwecwe

SAPS tells Parliament they have been unable to access 7-year-old rape victim

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News | 15 April 2025

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Should you give handouts at traffic lights? A view from the street

People helping do so out of goodwill and with the best intentions

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Opinion | 15 April 2025

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Police can’t say why they let an alleged rapist off the hook

Officers dropped him at hospital without questioning him

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News | 15 April 2025

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Synagogue president apologises for calling for genocide

South African Jews for a Free Palestine call for his resignation

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News | 10 April 2025

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Department of Public Works bungles Darling Street eviction application

State Attorney did not communicate with residents and failed to enrol the case properly

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News | 10 April 2025

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Western Cape promises progress on inner-city housing projects

Several social housing projects in Cape Town will go to tender this year

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News | 9 April 2025

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Cape Town families say City has ‘abandoned’ them

Municipality has no immediate plans to move families living at the Masonwabe temporary relocation area in Gugulethu

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News | 9 April 2025

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Crime hits sanitation services in Khayelitsha

City of Cape Town teams can only come out when security is available

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News | 3 April 2025

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Former MPs refuse to leave their subsidised housing in parliamentary villages

State Attorney to take steps to evict them

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News | 3 April 2025

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Mixed reviews for Cape Town SASSA offices on grant payment day

Beneficiaries using the SASSA Gold Card have until 31 May to swap to the Black Card

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News | 2 April 2025

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Eviction must not make immigrants homeless, says court

High Court rules against eviction of people occupying old Circus School premises in Cape Town

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Law | 2 April 2025

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People with disabilities lack accessible public transport in Cape Town

The Dial-a-Ride service has been stagnant for seven years

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News | 1 April 2025

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Fed up with promises of housing: Langa residents march to Cape Town Civic Centre

Some of the protesters still live in apartheid era hostels

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Brief | 28 March 2025

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Former Woodstock Hospital can be developed without displacing its occupiers

City of Cape Town should work with and not against the building’s residents, say urban researchers

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Opinion | 28 March 2025

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Accused in police torture case considers plea deal

Three police officers are charged with torturing a barber in Cape Town in November 2023

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Brief | 27 March 2025