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Joe Slovo Women’s Forum want houses not flats

Community members call for new steering committee for N2 Gateway housing project

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News | 13 July 2017

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Gang extorts money from Glebelands residents for murder accused

“We’re already anticipating a death. There’s been threats and signs.”

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News | 13 July 2017

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Heated civil society meeting debates secret ballot

Opposing positions presented by Makhosi Khoza, Bantu Holomisa and Steven Friedman

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News | 12 July 2017

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Municipality fails to fix public pool despite years of promises

It stands empty and overgrown in Mdantsane, a lost opportunity for the surrounding community

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News | 12 July 2017

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Children with disabilities grow old waiting for schools

Department has doubled placement but waiting lists are growing

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Parliament | 12 July 2017

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Metrorail’s smashing relationship with cars

“It will be fixed” says Metrorail – but it’s not clear when

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News | 12 July 2017

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Woodstock residents protest on symbolic bridge against their evictions

Case to be heard on Thursday

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Brief | 11 July 2017

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What it’s like when Metrorail fails

Which happens almost daily

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Brief | 11 July 2017

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Good Samaritans step in after mass evictions

An elderly woman and a mother with a disabled child found shelter in the community after the PE municipality demolished their shacks

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News | 11 July 2017

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Why did Hout Bay explode?

Imizamo Yethu is an example of the complexity of upgrading informal settlements

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Analysis | 11 July 2017

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Robertson’s dumping ground for farm workers

Councillor threatens GroundUp after we ask questions

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Feature | 10 July 2017

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Ocean View forms human chain to highlight crime problem

Residents claim 13 murders so far this year but police won’t release stats

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News | 10 July 2017

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Drain on Our Dignity: book and exhibition launch

Masixole Feni will present his portfolio from the 2015 Ernest Cole Award

Brief | 10 July 2017

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Khayelitsha occupiers say they won’t back down

Court postpones Town Two residents’ case

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Brief | 10 July 2017

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Suspicious death leaves immigrant family in poverty

The family of man who died in a mysterious fire say people told them to go back to the Congo

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News | 10 July 2017

Sreengrab of the prison riot

Prisoners relocated after riot at correctional facility

Inmates staged sit-ins and hunger strikes over long backlogs for parole

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