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Cape Town healthcare workers fear losing their jobs

Concerns over patient care if community workers’ contracts not renewed

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News | 26 March 2019

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“I’m doing it for all the blood of innocent people shed on the streets of the Cape Flats”

“Government keeps on saying that communities don’t want to speak up, but look what happens when you do”

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Feature | 26 March 2019

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Fix our gravel roads or we won’t vote, community tells mayor

Magwala villagers in the Eastern Cape say their roads have not been fixed for 19 years

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Brief | 25 March 2019

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Residents burn down Alra Park police station

Claims of race discrimination in housing allocation

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News | 25 March 2019

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Midrand crèche has community support but needs cash

An informal early childhood development centre has closed due to a lack of funds

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News | 25 March 2019

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Asylum seeker battles because of Home Affairs’ spelling mistake

Refugee Yanke Tonga Gillis says he has tried unsuccessfully to get the spelling of his name corrected

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Brief | 25 March 2019

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From security guard to successful pig farmer

Cape Town woman started with just three pigs

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Brief | 25 March 2019

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Refugee children turned away by Cape schools

Immigrant parents battle red tape to get their kids in school

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News | 22 March 2019

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Give us water not toilets, say Newcastle residents

Manzana settlement resorts to illegal connections

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Brief | 22 March 2019

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Pietermaritzburg community gripped by fear as witnesses and police are murdered

“These murders are done by people who are known”

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News | 22 March 2019

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Human Rights Day protesters demand better housing

Activist calls for investigation into EThekwini Municipality officials, while in Cape Town Reclaim the City occupied a golf course

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News | 21 March 2019

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Protesters extort cash and goods from immigrant shopkeepers

“I always give them two litres of paraffin for burning tyres during protests”

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News | 21 March 2019

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GROUNDVIEW: Cyril Ramaphosa wants to fix PRASA. Here’s what he needs to do

Metrorail broke down because of state capture

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GroundView | 21 March 2019

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Lottery has to do more with less

R2 billion distributed in 2017/18, but revenue not keeping up with demand for funding

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Brief | 21 March 2019

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Farm workers march to Parliament demanding moratorium on evictions

Call for President Cyril Ramaphosa to keep promise he made in 2014

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Brief | 20 March 2019

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Cape Flats residents protest for houses

Protesters demanded to see MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, and then burnt tyres when he did not address them

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News | 20 March 2019

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