South Africa|Western Cape

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Cape Town households call for electricity tariffs to be reduced

City says NERSA’s 15% tariff recommendation would lead to a shortfall of R500-million for 2023/24

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News | 28 August 2023

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Uyinene Mrwetyana’s family want Post Office transformed into “a place of healing”

Hundreds marched to the Clareinch post office in Claremont to commemorate four years since her rape and murder

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Brief | 28 August 2023

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Court challenge to 30-year extension of West Coast diamond mining rights

Fishers say they were ignored when the original rights were awarded between 1994 and 1998

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News | 28 August 2023

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Taxi strike cost Western Cape R5-billion, MEC tells Parliament

The strike was called without notice and badly affected businesses, learners, clinics and government services

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News | 25 August 2023

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EFF disrupts Cape Town council meeting, takes aim at JP Smith

But the controversial Mayco Member received a standing ovation from DA members for his handling of the taxi strike

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News | 24 August 2023

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Canoeist brothers clean up Khayelitsha wetland

Hours spent every week removing invasive water hyacinth and rubbish

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News | 24 August 2023

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Housing activists march to President’s doorstep

The existing State Land Disposal Act could be used to fast track the use of public land for human settlement

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News | 23 August 2023

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Mitchells Plain ward councillor accused of sidelining unemployed youths

The councillor says jobs are randomised by the Expanded Public Works Programme office and “no politician or councillor has influence in the process”

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Brief | 23 August 2023

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Protest over poor service at Khayelitsha Home Affairs

About 100 people marched in the rain under the banner of #UniteBehind

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Brief | 22 August 2023

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Axed PRASA board chair goes to court to get his job back

Leonard Ramatlakane argues that if he did anything wrong it was minor and unintentional

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News | 22 August 2023

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Langa’s cramped sewing school needs more space

The Sinakho Skills Development Centre and Entrepreneurship Training Academy

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Brief | 21 August 2023

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Learners launch storytelling project to “recapture the beauty” of Masiphumelele

Masiphumelele: Through The Struggles We Rise is a project by nine high school girls and students from the Stellenbosch Academy of Photography and Design

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News | 21 August 2023

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Cape Town taxi agreement made an order of court

The High Court also dismissed SANTACO’s interdict application

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News | 18 August 2023

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Students fear being evicted again if NSFAS payment issues not resolved

“My family is over 1,500 kilometres away in the Free State and I don’t really have anyone in Cape Town that I can go live with if we are evicted again,” she says.

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News | 18 August 2023

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Families flee Cape Town informal settlements under threat

Nearby backyarders hope for houses, though the City of Cape Town says the land is “lost” for housing

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News | 18 August 2023

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City of Cape Town told to make new plan for Woodstock social housing site

Heritage approval has not been granted, contrary to City claims

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News | 18 August 2023