Articles for Peter Luhanga

Swartland police fire rubber bullets and teargas at shack dwellers

Silvertown residents are demanding basic municipal services

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News | 4 June 2020

Dunoon explodes after shacks demolished

Former backyarders torch vehicles

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News | 2 June 2020

Life was better in quarantine in luxury hotel

Dunoon residents who have recovered from Covid-19 return to informal settlement

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Brief | 18 May 2020

Overcrowded Dunoon battles rising Covid-19 cases

No social distancing and health workers protest after colleagues test positive

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News | 15 May 2020

Covid-19: 1,500 Dunoon residents to be moved by July

“We don’t want any more delays,” says Minister Sisulu

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News | 22 April 2020

Covid-19: Four people have tested positive in Dunoon, says councillor

But life in the streets goes on as usual

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News | 15 April 2020

Covid-19: Plans to move thousands from informal settlements met with scepticism

“They should consult us before making these statements” says community leader

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News | 8 April 2020

Covid-19: “We can’t stay inside when we have no toilets”

Lockdown meaningless in Dunoon informal settlements

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News | 31 March 2020

Police remove students protesters at Malmesbury college

West Coast (TVET) College management says 1,769 students still have details outstanding before they can be approved for allowances

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News | 10 March 2020

Prison officials explain Ramaphosa’s decision to reduce sentences

Officials ask Dunoon residents to accept ex-convicts back into society, as nearly 900 released from Pollsmoor

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News | 17 February 2020

Parents try to shut down school with bullying problem

Education department has referred complaints to circuit manager

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Brief | 5 February 2020

Frustrated Dunoon residents block road with rubbish they’ve picked up

Blocked drains and illegal dumping plague area

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Brief | 30 January 2020

He studied for matric in a one-room shack shared with four others - and got 7 distinctions

Siyamthanda Mtyeku sometimes only had one meal a day

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News | 29 January 2020

Traders and shopowners face off over sewage spill

Motorists are splashing sewage onto my meat, says Cape Town trader

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Brief | 27 January 2020

Witsand residents protest against arrest of street patrollers

12 members of patrol face charges including assault, kidnapping, and attempted murder

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Brief | 21 January 2020

Opposition to City of Cape Town’s business park plan

The City wants to turn part of the Racing Park into emergency housing units

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News | 4 December 2019