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UCT sisters doing it for themselves

Eunice Mtsweni and her sister battle to make ends meet as they fund their studies at UCT

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Feature | 29 March 2016

Grandmother and student battle to pay loan

Karabo owes UCT R70,000

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Feature | 29 March 2016

Student describes why he considered suicide

Mbulelo owes UCT R40,000

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Feature | 29 March 2016

Assassinated anti-mining activist knew his life was in danger

Struggle against mining in Xolobeni will continue, promises Nonhle Mbuthuma

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Feature | 29 March 2016

Medicine offers hope for heroin users in Mitchells Plain

But government unlikely to make it widely available

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Feature | 24 March 2016

Waiting for work day after day

Unemployed men and women try their luck at sites across the city

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Feature | 16 March 2016

Unequal education: the plight of Westlake students

Students travel 15km to school even though much better ones are nearer

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Feature | 11 March 2016

Will clinics provide medicines to prevent HIV transmission?

A pill reduces the risk of women getting HIV but there are challenges to making it widely available

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Feature | 9 March 2016

How clean are Cape Town’s rivers?

Five years after a clean-up was launched there is progress, but not everywhere

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Feature | 3 March 2016

New technology might transform small-scale fishing

App connects fishers, scientists and fishery management

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Feature | 24 February 2016

How drought is destroying KZN’s cattle farms

Lack of rain has forced farmers to make difficult decisions

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Feature | 11 February 2016

Ward 69: Fragmented by apartheid era planning

This area will be closely contested in the Municipal elections

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Feature | 1 February 2016

Philippi ward beset by internal politics

There is a political battle underway in Philippi's Ward 33. The fight is not between opposing political parties, however, but within the ANC itself, with former ward councillor Monwabisi Mbaliswano in one corner and the present incumbent, Nico Mzalisi, in the other.

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Feature | 14 January 2016

Where are the traffic death statistics?

The government agency responsible for publishing them has not done so since March 2011.

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Feature | 11 January 2016

Old and on the street

Theresa Fisher was born in what was then Rhodesia, in 1950. Simon Jacobs was born in what was then Transkei, in 1957. Both of them have ended up, in 2015, begging on the same street corner in Rondebosch.

Tariro Washinyira

Feature | 11 December 2015

State accused of letting Tormin damage West Coast

Activists have accused government officials of turning a blind eye to a pattern of environmental violations at the Tormin dune mine on the West Coast – including a “catastrophic” cliff collapse – after state departments failed to act on a string of letters, objections and a formal appeal.

Mary-Anne Gontsana

Feature | 11 December 2015