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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

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

Waste pickers snubbed by City and Province

“Absence of land is blocking our dream”

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News | 2 March 2018

Charges dropped against UWC students after 16 months

“Being falsely accused and imprisoned was terrifying”

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News | 2 March 2018

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

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

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

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

Court battle over Zimbabwean children in SA custody

Parents seek urgent interdict to stop deportation

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News | 1 March 2018

Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

Spat over water on Drakenstein farm

Owner reconnects water supply to families after complaints

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News | 27 February 2018

Proposed Foreshore development compared to apartheid

Suspended City official slammed affordable housing plan

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News | 27 February 2018

Ramaphosa’s “most important people”

GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament

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News | 27 February 2018

Foreshore development was one of the reasons for De Lille fallout

Plans pushed through by senior official, claims mayor’s executive director

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News | 26 February 2018

Corruption Watch says CPS must pay back R317 million

Social grant payment company claims it offered “the best deal SASSA could get”

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News | 23 February 2018

Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy

Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit

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News | 23 February 2018