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Police officer filmed assaulting man is still on duty

Three officers are accused of assaulting Juma Igiranieza, a barber, in Mowbray on 7 November 2023

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News | 28 August 2024

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PRASA taken to court over “illegal” eviction in Cape Town city centre

Man stabbed during shack demolitions

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News | 28 August 2024

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Gugulethu sports tournament keeps learners off the street and on the field

Learners from township schools participate in the sports league on Fridays

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Brief | 28 August 2024

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Cape Town’s hidden informal settlement

Flamingo Heights is home to 400 people

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News | 28 August 2024

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Farm workers march in rain and wind to call for ban on pesticides

They want an end to exports of harmful pesticides from Germany

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Brief | 27 August 2024

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Alarming Auditor-General report on municipalities

Only 34 out of 257 municipalities receive clean audits for 2022/23

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News | 27 August 2024

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Cape Town electricity protest brings traffic to a halt

“We are eating less food because we have to pay more for electricity”

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News | 23 August 2024

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Taxi bosses demand children use their services to get to school

But taxi association denies the letter is from them

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News | 23 August 2024

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Future of the nearly 900 people living in Woodstock Hospital hangs in the balance

Cape Town Mayor commits to social housing but residents believe they will be kicked out

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News | 22 August 2024

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Philippi community welcomes temporary police station

This comes two years after the previous Browns Farm satellite police station was decommissioned due to severe vandalism and safety concerns

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News | 22 August 2024

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SASSA office in Strand will only re-open after September

Applicants for grants urged to use the online system

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Brief | 20 August 2024

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Trains now run to Khayelitsha, but the Central Line is still not fully operational

Metrorail says work on remaining stations was delayed by rains

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News | 19 August 2024

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Pre-dawn operation moves homeless people off Cape Town’s streets

City is offering “Safe Space” shelters but some people don’t want to go there

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News | 16 August 2024

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Stop new mining on West Coast, say fishers

“We depend on the ocean”

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News | 16 August 2024

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Homeless people removed from Cape Town’s city centre

“We want everybody to have dignified accommodation,” says ward councillor

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News | 15 August 2024

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Bail denied for Cape Town attorney charged with attempted murder

Court rules attorney Rael Kassel is a flight risk

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Brief | 15 August 2024