Protesters face off against police in Vrygrond

Residents call for an end to shack demolitions

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News | 7 October 2019

Dunoon: the long battle between the taxi operators and the City of Cape Town

Fight over whether operators who exited the industry should be licensed to come back

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News | 7 October 2019

City lawyers tell activist organisation to stop helping 80-year-old man facing eviction

Eviction of Kenneth Blaine escalates ideological battle between local government and Reclaim the City

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Feature | 7 October 2019

Rats still live in Kanana’s filthy ditches

30-year-old settlement is still a mess

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News | 4 October 2019

Occupiers of old age home prepare for another night outside

No court rulings yet on their fate

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News | 3 October 2019

Old age home occupiers evicted

Residents spend the night on the street in Observatory

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News | 3 October 2019

City of Cape Town refuses to respond to activist prank

Organisers of Monday’s zombie rally sent out a spoof press release that claimed the City had agreed to their demands

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Brief | 3 October 2019

Groote Schuur unveils new cancer machine that can treat 40 patients a day

The hospital treats 3,000 new oncology patients a year

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News | 3 October 2019

Customer assaults pregnant Shoprite cashier

Video footage shows man hitting eight-months-pregnant Zimkhitha Xhalabile

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News | 2 October 2019

Uber drivers say they’re being harassed by minibus taxis

Taxi association condemns violence

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News | 2 October 2019

Unfinished RDP houses in Khayelitsha

No ceilings, toilet doors or gutters

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Brief | 2 October 2019

Elderly motorist doused with petrol in Dunoon taxi protests

Other vehicles also attacked as taxi operators respond to City clampdown

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News | 1 October 2019

Township residents occupy city old age home

CPOA says it intended to upgrade Observatory building, but new residents say they will not move

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Feature | 1 October 2019

Satire and the City: Zombies and a dead president protest in Cape Town

Housing activists compare City’s housing policies to apartheid era

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Photo Essay | 30 September 2019

One dead and over 80 homeless after Strand fire

Delivery man whose car caught alight says he does not know how he will resume work

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Brief | 30 September 2019

Cape Town tennis academy is changing lives - and making champions

“People were hesitant to fund something like kids playing tennis when there might be so many other pressing problems in South Africa”

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Feature | 30 September 2019