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Black Sash back to Constitutional Court over social grants

Organisation wants data protection for grant beneficiaries and a moratorium on issuing Easy Pay Everywhere cards

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Brief | 5 March 2018

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Gugulethu occupiers call for City to buy land for them

“If the City builds double-storey flats here, about 700 homeless residents can get a place to stay”

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News | 5 March 2018

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Race row disrupts KZN school

Learners boycott classes after teacher accused of making racist insults

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Brief | 5 March 2018

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Expropriation: what does the Constitution say?

Four requirements, seven principles and four questions to consider

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Law | 5 March 2018

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Manenberg parents demand donated funds from school

Principal says money to be used for next year’s fees

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News | 5 March 2018

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Khayelitsha learners march for more teachers

More than 130,000 learners have relocated to the Western Cape over past five years, according to provincial education department

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Brief | 2 March 2018

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Waste pickers snubbed by City and Province

“Absence of land is blocking our dream”

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News | 2 March 2018

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Charges dropped against UWC students after 16 months

“Being falsely accused and imprisoned was terrifying”

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News | 2 March 2018

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Here is the status of Cape Town’s water supply projects

City promises to engage with UCT scientists over concerns about drilling into the Table Mountain Group aquifer

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News | 2 March 2018

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Quarrel over Sarah Baartman sculpture at UCT

Librarian removes covering that students had placed over Willie Bester’s artwork

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News | 2 March 2018

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Cape Town is paying for national government failures, say officials

Ian Neilson warns that Day Zero is still possible: water consumption needs to drop to 450 million litres daily

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News | 1 March 2018

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City says no money to house evictees in Woodstock

Albert Road residents refuse to move to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier

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Brief | 1 March 2018

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Cape Town church calls for decriminalisation of sex work

“Jesus was the first to decriminalise sex work” says church banner

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News | 1 March 2018

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Court battle over Zimbabwean children in SA custody

Parents seek urgent interdict to stop deportation

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News | 1 March 2018

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Living on a lottery prayer

How poor people keep the Lottery coffers filled

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Feature | 1 March 2018

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“Chocolate City”, where houses melt in the rain

Hundreds have lived in mud homes for decades in Dambuza

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Brief | 1 March 2018

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