Sea Point Jewish residents and domestic workers meet over Tafelberg

Claims of anti-semitism in affordable housing campaign are “totally baseless and silly”, says activist

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News | 25 July 2017

Steenvilla social housing residents protest evictions

Company says some households haven’t paid rent for a year, while residents say they can’t afford increases

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News | 24 July 2017

Hout Bay residents agree to keep the peace

But community remains split over reblocking and several leaders have been arrested for public violence

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News | 24 July 2017

Armed attack on occupiers of Helen Bowden Nurses Home

Activists believe it was politically motivated

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Brief | 24 July 2017

Janitors struggle to cope with Wallacedene’s filthy toilets

City promises immunisation shots for workers and that all necessary equipment and chemicals will be delivered

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News | 24 July 2017

Kensington residents demand more police

Protest comes following spike in reported contact crimes

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Brief | 24 July 2017

Houses damaged in N2 Gateway dispute

Residents and housing project steering committee members question beneficiary lists

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Brief | 24 July 2017

City-hired security company suspends 250 employees

Workers claim they are placed where there is no clean water, toilets or electricity

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News | 21 July 2017

Violence erupts in Hout Bay as City attempts to reblock

Anti-Land Invasion Unit demolishes over 50 shacks

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News | 20 July 2017

300 beds added to Western Cape’s shelters over past three years

But Cape Town CBD homeless shelters still need more beds

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News | 20 July 2017

Activists present stats on unequal policing

Areas with highest murder rates have fewer police resources, says SJC

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Brief | 20 July 2017

10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

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News | 19 July 2017

Zimbabweans battle cost and bureaucracy of repatriating dead loved ones

Returning a body home costs about R20,000

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News | 19 July 2017

City announces U-turn on social housing

Reclaim the City welcomes plans for ten new sites for affordable housing but says it remains cautious

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News | 18 July 2017

Where a house for one means homelessness for another

Many people have lost their backyard shacks after RDP houses built in Wallacedene

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News | 18 July 2017

What is government doing about Cape Town’s water crisis?

There are a number of projects underway, but it’s not yet clear if it’s enough

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Feature | 18 July 2017