News

Municipality fails to fix public pool despite years of promises

It stands empty and overgrown in Mdantsane, a lost opportunity for the surrounding community

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News | 12 July 2017

Metrorail’s smashing relationship with cars

“It will be fixed” says Metrorail – but it’s not clear when

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News | 12 July 2017

Good Samaritans step in after mass evictions

An elderly woman and a mother with a disabled child found shelter in the community after the PE municipality demolished their shacks

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News | 11 July 2017

Ocean View forms human chain to highlight crime problem

Residents claim 13 murders so far this year but police won’t release stats

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News | 10 July 2017

Suspicious death leaves immigrant family in poverty

The family of man who died in a mysterious fire say people told them to go back to the Congo

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News | 10 July 2017

Prisoners relocated after riot at correctional facility

Inmates staged sit-ins and hunger strikes over long backlogs for parole

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News | 7 July 2017

Social grant beneficiaries happy after cancelling “green” cards

People who closed EasyPay Everywhere accounts received their full grant amount on SASSA cards

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News | 7 July 2017

Petition launched after damning report on Eastern Cape schools

“This looks like a place for cows, but we are humans studying under these conditions”

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News | 6 July 2017

Imizamo Yethu community welcomes police probe into death of protester

“We only hope that we get justice and that the community gets what he died fighting for”

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News | 6 July 2017

Community organisations locked out of Hanover Park civic centres

City says it is part of a process “to regularise the use of community facilities” in the area

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News | 5 July 2017

City interdicts Imizamo Yethu rebuilders

After violent protests by community mayor says City will commence reblocking

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News | 5 July 2017

Landowners fight 100 years of dispossession

The Evaton community want their trust land restored and mining companies to pay compensation

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News | 5 July 2017

Uncertain future for False Bay animal rescue shelter

TEARS needs funding to continue providing free veterinary care to animals in Oceanview, Masiphumelele, Vrygrond, and Red Hill

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News | 4 July 2017

Refugees claim abuse at UNHCR

Asylum seekers call for firing of staff at office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

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News | 4 July 2017

No house yet, but here is a toilet that doesn’t work

Toilets in Uitenhage housing project were built three years before the houses and they no longer work

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News | 4 July 2017

Months after fire Hout Bay explodes

People from Imizamo Yethu who are in temporary shelters say the City must make good on its promises

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News | 3 July 2017