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Zimbabwean children miss exams as Home Affairs sends them from city to city

“These people are not considerate. Why work with refugees when they do not have refugees’ interests at heart?”

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News | 8 June 2018

Meet Adriaan du Toit, the “independent” geologist who trolls environmentalists and Cyril Ramaphosa

Du Toit’s work helped an Australian company get prospecting rights on the West Coast

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News | 8 June 2018

City commits to accommodating Maynard Street tenants

“There will be no evictions” says councillor

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News | 8 June 2018

Mfuleni shack-dwellers have been using an open field as a toilet. Now even the field is too dirty

Communal toilets in Burundi informal settlement haven’t been cleaned since January

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News | 8 June 2018

Citrus strike ends as farmers agree to R20 an hour

Workers in Sundays River Valley return to farms

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News | 7 June 2018

Shacks destroyed as fire services arrive late

Residents say cooking accident started blaze

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News | 7 June 2018

Gugulethu man blames City contractors for his crooked house

Mzwandile Mvumvu believes his house collapsed after work was done on sewage pipes outside

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News | 7 June 2018

Solar water heater programme goes cold

Atlantis factory faces closure and the loss of 85 jobs

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News | 7 June 2018

Post Office to pay all social grants, including cash

MPs call for government to investigate CPS dealings

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News | 7 June 2018

Dozens of families evicted at Cape Town’s largest social housing project

Previous attempt to remove Steenvilla households who are behind on their rent failed

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News | 6 June 2018

Uber and City of Cape Town locked in licence battle

Drivers caught in middle as more cars are impounded

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News | 6 June 2018

Expropriating land without compensation: shack-dwellers have their say

“People just want decent homes. They are not asking for palaces.”

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News | 5 June 2018

Western Cape could be testing ground for land expropriation without compensation, says minister

Mcebisi Skwatsha says government is considering action to protect families from eviction in Drakenstein

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News | 5 June 2018

Domestic worker attacked by employers’ dogs

Police refused to investigate, says victim’s brother

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News | 5 June 2018

Protests close down Cape Town business district

Westlake marchers walk 8km to councillor’s office demanding housing

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News | 4 June 2018

Tsunami residents demand toilets and a clean neighbourhood

“Sometimes residents return from the bushes undressed after thugs rob them of their clothes and hard-earned cash.”

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News | 4 June 2018