South Africa|Western Cape|Cape Town

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Toilets unserviced for months in Khayelitsha

We breath unbearable stench from the dirty loos, says resident

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News | 27 August 2019

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Raw sewage runs through Dunoon’s Ethembeni informal settlement

Residents say they have been living in these conditions for over a year

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News | 27 August 2019

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“We turned an unused building into a place many now call home”

“In this place there is love and care,” says Woodstock hospital occupier

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News | 27 August 2019

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Still no police station five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing

Police ministry and SAPS continue to fail the vulnerable and the poor, says activist

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Brief | 26 August 2019

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Is Melissa Whitehead a principled civil servant or a “cowboy”?

Her supporters say she was too progressive for Cape Town’s municipality. Her detractors accuse her of playing victim.

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News | 26 August 2019

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Make trains safer for women and children, demand commuters

#UniteBehind and other train commuters stage picket on Friday

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Brief | 26 August 2019

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City says it has housing opportunities in Blue Downs

Residential serviced plots available for people with a monthly income of R9,000 to R22,000

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Brief | 26 August 2019

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Burn victims unable to get life changing treatment

South Africa’s only tissue bank has been empty the past two months

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News | 26 August 2019

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Court orders hundreds of Kraaifontein farm dwellers to be relocated to Philippi

“The judgment doesn’t understand the reality confronting the people of Klein Akker Farm” says community leader

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Brief | 23 August 2019

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Army protects Eskom workers in Khayelitsha

“The army is here to intimidate us” says Qandu-qandu informal settlement resident

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News | 22 August 2019

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Farm workers say Oak Valley housing arrangements are racist

But farm retorts that its living conditions are humane

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Brief | 21 August 2019

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Hundreds stranded by roadside after massive farm eviction in Kraaifontein

Evictees say all their possessions were seized

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News | 21 August 2019

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New land occupiers say they are flood victims

People relocating to Mpukwini from Island informal settlement had their shacks demolished on the weekend

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News | 19 August 2019

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Commuters left stranded by Metrorail in Cape Town

“Every day when I arrive at work I am already exhausted because of the shoving and standing inside the overcrowded trains.”

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Brief | 19 August 2019

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Zimbabweans too intimidated to speak out, even in South Africa

“Government monitors social media. I am scared if I make negative comments, I would get blacklisted and not get my passport.”

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Brief | 19 August 2019

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Coastal Bylaw intends to push back Beachfront property spread

But draft criticised for draconian measures such as outlawing foul language

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News | 19 August 2019