Children “too scared to play outside” in Ocean View

Residents demand increased police visibility, CCTV cameras, more stop and search operations

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News | 9 July 2018

How Bo-Kaap’s rising property prices are threatening a community

But many of the neighbourhood’s cash-poor, asset-rich homeowners are resisting the temptation to sell

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Feature | 9 July 2018

Residents “take back” their community with clean-up initiative

The International Peace Youth Group in partnership with PRASA and Netreg residents cleaned the area around the train station on Saturday

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Brief | 9 July 2018

Cape Town residents wait days for ambulance

Stark divide between Bonnytoun’s coloured and black residents, but all await houses

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Feature | 6 July 2018

Steenvilla evictees disappointed after De Lille no-show

Mayor’s office says she was not aware of meeting with residents

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Brief | 6 July 2018

Informal settlement dwellers rebuild despite repeat demolitions

Councillor says land belongs to the City and is earmarked for future housing projects

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News | 5 July 2018

Social housing residents demand option to buy homes

Evicted people, informal settlement residents and backyarders march through city centre

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News | 5 July 2018

Emergency housing for Hermanus community

But unclear if it will be enough to placate protesters

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News | 5 July 2018

Cape Town launches Safe Space for homeless people

Facility will provide overnight shelter for up to 230 homeless people

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Brief | 4 July 2018

How a woman secures her shack when it rains

Masiphumelele’s informal settlement is built on a wetland and regularly floods

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News | 4 July 2018

Injured woman has Home Affairs nightmare

Long queues and rude officials have made it extremely difficult for Kundji Tembo to renew her asylum papers

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News | 4 July 2018

Western Cape opposes national government’s mining rights approval

Department of Mineral Resources approved Australian company’s application to do mineral prospecting on northern bank of Olifants River estuary

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News | 3 July 2018

Why do informal settlements get cluttered with litter?

UCT survey of Island in Khayelitsha provides some answers

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Science | 29 June 2018

Blikkiesdorp residents frustrated by housing delays

City councillor estimates new RDP homes will be completed in two years

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Photo Essay | 29 June 2018

Judge Hlophe fails to explain why judgments are extremely late

Sixteen judgments at the Cape High Court have been outstanding for more than half-a-year. Six have been outstanding since 2016.

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News | 29 June 2018

Hout Bay roads blocked in taxi tiff

Route to Cape Town is supposed to be for MyCiTi only, but taxis have starting using it again

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News | 28 June 2018