Women who beat the odds and other stories
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Wine farm eviction leaves family homeless
News: When eight-year-old Jessica Jordaan returned home from De Villiers Primary yesterday afternoon, a pile of bricks lay in place of the house where she had lived all her life.
Daneel Knoetze
New toilets for Khayelitsha creche
News: It\xe2\x80\x99s an hour before snack time at the Sophumelela Day Care centre in Site C, Khayelitsha, and one of the toddlers has indicated to his teacher that he needs to use the toilet.
Barbara Maregele
Original District 6 families face eviction
On Searle Street, six semi-detached Victorian cottages house a handful of families not forcibly removed from District 6 during apartheid. Now, as the cottages go on sale, the tenants face imminent eviction.
Daneel Knoetze
From backyard to Rolihlahla Park
News: Nosiphiwo Lali built her shack in Rolihlahla Park in Philippi East three weeks ago. She is one of hundreds of people who have moved out of backyards into the Philippi area recently, in spite of the eviction of families in neighbouring Marikana settlement.
Johnnie Isaac
Articles
Confusion over Zimbabwe Special Dispensation Permit
News: Some holders of Zimbabwe Dispensation Permits that expire in 2015 do not understand that all permits are expiring on 31 December 2014, and that they too need to make an online application by 1 October 2014 for the new Zimbabwe Special Dispensation Permit (ZSP).
Tariro Washinyira
City plans to sell off a string of properties
News: The City of Cape Town has announced it intends to sell off 65 municipal properties prompting a backlash from the hosts of a recent symposium on the Urban Land Question.
Daneel Knoetze
Delft teenager determined on success
News: \xe2\x80\x9cSome gangsters in my community have their reasons to be in gangs. I understand where they are coming from, but I choose to be different,\xe2\x80\x9d says Sibabalwe Mpetha.
Pharie Sefali
Daylight robbery at Nyanga school
News: On 20 August at Walter Teka Primary School in Nyanga, an official from the Department of Education in Western Cape became a victim of a crime while he visited the school on official duties. The incident occurred in front of schoolchildren.
Johnnie Isaac
Weekend crime sweep in Delft
News: Bad street lighting, poor numbering of streets and bushes affect policing in Delft, according to Brigadier Hendrik Jansen, who is the Acting Cluster Commander.
Johnnie Isaac
Cosatu holds conference on crime
News: On 22 August in the Cape Town City Hall, Cosatu convened an anti-crime conference in response to desperate pleas from communities asking for a more effective response to crime.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
I am a sex worker …
News: Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) has staged a photo exhibition at its head office in Observatory, Cape Town, aimed at the ignorance and prejudice that comes with being labelled a sex worker.
Simbonile Mkwambi
Gay and not free in South Africa
News: A gay man from the DRC claims the Congolese community in South Africa will not rest until they kill him. Junior Miteo Kalonji, 34, wept hard as he talked about his life. GroundUp had to stop the interview three times when he broke down.
Tariro Washinyira
Silver lining for evicted farm tenants
News: There is a glimmer of hope for Andries Joostenberg and his family who, earlier this month, were evicted from the farm where they have lived for 50 years. As they near the prospect of becoming homeless again, a Stellenbosch attorney, Johan van der Merwe, has agreed to appeal the eviction order which put the family out on the street.
Daneel Knoetze
Special feature: Women who beat the odds
Women who beat the odds: Langa\xe2\x80\x99s Nomzamo Mbete
Special Feature: 72-year-old Nomzamo Mbete is determined to do her bit to help young township girls through dance.
Pharie Sefali
Women who beat the odds: Khayelitsha\xe2\x80\x99s Nokuthula Sibaba
Special Feature: Thanks to a successful woman, people in Khayelitsha don\xe2\x80\x99t have to go to a mall to buy pizza - they can go to a pizza stand in Litha Park.
Pharie Sefali
Women who beat the odds: Lydia Ntonga
Special Feature: Lydia Ntonga, 25, will not allow the loss of her eyesight to hold her back. With courage and help from Cape Town Society for the Blind and The League of Friends of the Blind she is determined to get what she wants from life.
Tariro Washinyira
Women who beat the odds: Masiphumelele\xe2\x80\x99s Kwa aunty
Special Feature: If you live in Masiphumelele you will know Nongoloza\xe2\x80\x99s Braai Place, or Kwa aunty, as some call it. You probably know the owner and she probably knows you too by name.
Zintle Swana
Angy Peter trial
Angy Peter case frustrated by sick detective constable
News: Whispers of disbelief and frustration broke the silence in the courtroom as Judge Robert Henney announced that detective constable Stanford Muthian had called in sick for the second time in the last week. Muthian of Mfuleni police station headed the investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Rowan du Preez.
Barbara Maregele
Crucial evidence missing from police docket
News: The handwritten notes made by the three police officers who claim they recorded Rowan du Preez\xe2\x80\x99s dying declaration \xe2\x80\x9cwere nowhere to be found\xe2\x80\x9d in the investigating docket.
Barbara Maregele
Angy Peter case: defence questions police docket
News: Defence attorney William King has questioned the authenticity of the police docket handed to the court in the trial of Angy Peter and others.
Barbara Maregele
Peter trial: Constable\xe2\x80\x99s competence called into question
News: Defence attorney William King expressed concern yesterday at the lack of memory and of competency of the detective constable who led investigations into the kidnapping and murder of Rowan du Preez.
Barbara Maregele
Photo story
Amakrwala
Photo story: Young Xhosa men are welcomed back by the community after spending a month undergoing initiation and circumcision in the open veld in Philippi. It was on a Friday and mostly older brothers and young children cheered on the three young men at New crossroads, Nyanga. The women waited patiently at the family home, preparing food and peeling vegetables, while the elders chatted and drank African beer waiting to share words of wisdom with the new men. Photos by Masixole Feni and Hugo Bobeheman. Click on any image to start slide show.
Masixole Feni and Hugo Bobeheman
Opinion
Do big electronic dance music festivals spread the love?
Opinion: From Miami\xe2\x80\x99s supercharged Ultra Music festival to Rocking the Daisies, Cape Town has become home to some of the highest grossing music festivals in the country. Our music journalist, Zethu Gqola, takes a look at how, if at all, four of the biggest festivals have benefitted struggling communities in and around Cape Town.
Zethu Gqola
Sex work, crime & the working class
Opinion: All who sell their labour in order to survive are workers. And all workers are, to one or other degree, exploited in that they are paid less than the final value of the work they do. Within a profit-driven system it could hardly be otherwise.
Terry Bell
Activist Beat
The week in activism
Activist Beat: In this week in activism, the massacre at Lonmin mine is remembered two years on, relief in the courts for people removed from Saratoga Avenue by the City of Johannesburg, and anticipation mounts ahead of the release of the report by the commission into policing in Khayelitsha.
Thembela Ntongana
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