Articles for Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Where are the houses we were promised in 1996, ask the elderly women of Kei Road

“It is clear our government only helps those who protest”

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News | 27 July 2022

Backyarders finish houses abandoned by contractor

But the City of Cape Town says the contractor will be back and the occupiers will be evicted

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News | 21 July 2022

City opens criminal case against flood victims occupying community hall

About 60 Mfuleni families moved into the hall after floods in June

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Brief | 15 July 2022

Fire crew attacked responding to blaze where toddler died

The five-year-old boy was home alone with his three-year-old brother when the fire started

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Brief | 11 July 2022

Takealot workers strike for permanent positions

Hundreds of workers walk out of Montague Gardens warehouse

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Brief | 8 July 2022

Loadshedding may have killed Khayelitsha couple

Daughter suspects they went to bed when the electricity cut and forgot to switch off a stove

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Brief | 7 July 2022

City suspends operations in Philippi after team robbed at gunpoint

Families in Marcus Garvey informal settlement are living with a large pool of stagnant sewer water behind their homes

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Brief | 7 July 2022

Six children and two adults die in Cape Town shack fires

Three fires in West Bank, Nyanga and Philippi also left scores of people homeless

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News | 4 July 2022

Loadshedding causes more hardship for grant recipients

Khayelitsha residents protested on Thursday, demanding SASSA open more service sites

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News | 30 June 2022

Woman dies trying to save her family

Mfuleni family loses three members in a fire. Two children are still fighting for their lives in hospital.

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Brief | 29 June 2022

Broken toilets are a big problem across Cape Town’s townships

In a Khayelitsha neighbourhood, it’s so bad that instead of using the City-supplied toilets, people are defecating in buckets and throwing the waste in a field

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News | 27 June 2022

Flood “washes away” shacks in Cape Town nature reserve

Clean up operations underway across city on Wednesday morning

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News | 15 June 2022

Cape Town housing project brought to a halt in protest over jobs

Delft residents demand work on Symphony Way project

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News | 9 June 2022

Judge sets deadline for Western Cape Education Department to find schools for seven learners

Equal Education Law Centre inundated with requests from desperate parents of unplaced learners

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News | 8 June 2022

Municipality fails to pay its workers their May salaries

Community leaders call for Amahlathi municipality to be disbanded

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News | 6 June 2022