Pay R4 if you want to use the toilet at Home Affairs

Security guards at Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape demand money from people who need the toilet

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Brief | 24 September 2018

“My house smells like a toilet”

City of Cape Town’s janitorial programme has left Siyahlala and other informal settlements unserviced for over a year

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Brief | 24 September 2018

Gwede Mantashe to meet Xolobeni residents opposed to mining

But residents sceptical of his intentions

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News | 21 September 2018

No progress for the “rainbow nation” without redress, says artist

In Things we lost in the Rainbow, artist Athi-Patra Ruga tries to reclaim the spaces from which he and many others have been historically exiled

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Photo Essay | 21 September 2018

Residents of Marikana informal settlement left in the dark

A year after High Court ordered City of Cape Town to buy the land but the matter is still in court

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Brief | 21 September 2018

Zimbabwean teachers in SA unpaid for months

Western Cape Education Department says Home Affairs is to blame

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Brief | 21 September 2018

Asylum seekers say officials keep their passports until they buy tickets to Zimbabwe

But bus ticket operators will usually not issue a cross-border ticket if the passenger does not show a passport

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News | 21 September 2018

Sea Point security company in court over provident fund contributions

Proexec owners say they are cash-strapped and unable to pay

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Brief | 20 September 2018

Why is there so much conflict between Abahlali and the state?

Scarcity of houses is just one part of a problem that has its roots in the province’s 1990s violence

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Analysis | 20 September 2018

14 arrests in Eastern Cape taxi protest

“A bullet missed me. I felt it passing my face”

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Brief | 20 September 2018

Sun City prisoners accuse staff of cheating them out of canteen money

Inmates say attempts to open fraud case blocked

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News | 20 September 2018

City of Cape Town fails to explain R140m property sale bungle

But there is a solution that can benefit the city’s residents

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News | 20 September 2018

Zandspruit residents march for better policing

Johannesburg community warns of vigilante action if situation doesn’t improve

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News | 19 September 2018

Wheelchair users demand better transport

City’s Dial-a-Ride service criticised for being pricey

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News | 19 September 2018

Taxi strike disrupts social grant payments in Eastern Cape

Taxi operators claim MEC won’t listen to them

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News | 19 September 2018

When government is a slumlord: Pefferville’s ghastly blocks of flats

“When it’s time to vote they will come here in numbers, yet we do not get any services from them”

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News | 19 September 2018