Articles for Bernard Chiguvare

Blind Zimbabwean loses refugee status after identity muddle

Blessing Marindo has also lost his disability grant and is struggling to make ends meet

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Brief | 28 February 2019

Woman told to go to Zimbabwe to get her South African-born child’s visas

She faces prohibitive costs and may lose her job

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Brief | 22 February 2019

Mural tells the story of the Siyangena informal settlement

A wall that could have been a barrier has connected a community

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News | 5 February 2019

Grade 10 learner sells his paintings to pay for school

Innocent Mukanyima wants to finish school before becoming a professional artist

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News | 31 January 2019

Zimbabweans stock up in SA to beat inflation at home

But the cost of taking goods back rises over Christmas

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News | 18 December 2018

Shack dwellers ask City to share cost of janitors

Toilets donated to community of Siyangena are kept clean by residents

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News | 11 December 2018

Fire victims at Overcome Heights want electricity and water restored

It has been a month since a fire displaced 800 people

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Brief | 3 December 2018

Security guards protest at Parliament

Guards demand to be better armed

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Brief | 28 November 2018

Vendors have mixed reactions to Grand Parade upgrade

The City says upgrade will start in February and will cost more than R5 million

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News | 27 November 2018

Born in South Africa but not a citizen

Ghanaian matric student desperate for ID to get to university in 2019

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News | 26 November 2018

Fire victims rebuild shacks demolished by City

Councillor says they built on private property but residents say there was nowhere else to build

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Brief | 6 November 2018

Vrygrond fire victims struggle to rebuild

City says nearly 300 families have received rebuilding kits

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Brief | 2 November 2018

Over 800 people homeless after Vrygrond fire

309 homes destroyed in Overcome Heights informal settlement

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News | 26 October 2018

Kosovo fire victims slowly rebuild their lives

City of Cape Town fire kits supplied to 98% of those affected

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Brief | 24 October 2018

Metrorail commuter files assault charge

Passenger says ticket checkers and guards punched him when he entered the wrong carriage

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Brief | 23 October 2018

Fire leaves over 1,000 people homeless in Philippi

City says approximately 120 shacks destroyed and 1,400 people displaced in Kosovo informal settlement

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News | 22 October 2018