Articles for Ashraf Hendricks

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Small West Coast town is the world capital of this delicacy

In photos: Velddrif’s bokkom industry

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Photo Essay | 9 September 2024

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Tensions mount as Cape Town farmers face relocation

The area that the government wants to move them to is already occupied

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News | 30 August 2024

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Farm workers march in rain and wind to call for ban on pesticides

They want an end to exports of harmful pesticides from Germany

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Brief | 27 August 2024

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Cape Town electricity protest brings traffic to a halt

“We are eating less food because we have to pay more for electricity”

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News | 23 August 2024

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Riverlands families struggle to pick up the pieces after flash floods

Clean-up operations are underway

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News | 20 August 2024

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Pre-dawn operation moves homeless people off Cape Town’s streets

City is offering “Safe Space” shelters but some people don’t want to go there

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News | 16 August 2024

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Cape Town’s beloved Zip Zap Circus is moving

New premises will be the old Dome “on steroids”

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News | 5 August 2024

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Dogs and cats get their own taxi in Cape Town

The taxi is being piloted by AfriPaw and is aimed at providing access to its free monthly animal clinics for pets living in poor communities like Vrygrond

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News | 25 July 2024

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Possible site for Muizenberg homeless shelter sparks alarm

But City of Cape Town says no decision has been taken yet

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Brief | 17 July 2024

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Winelands families battle flooding: “For three days people have not slept”

Relentless rain hampers relief efforts

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News | 12 July 2024

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Gale rips off roofs in Cape Town suburb

Residents of Wynberg were assessing the damage on Thursday morning

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Photo Essay | 11 July 2024

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Western Cape storms: “worse is still to come”

Schools to close across the province as another storm hits, with about 15,000 people already severely affected by floods and damaging winds

By Sandiso Phaliso, Vincent Lali, Marecia Damons, Ashraf Hendricks, Liezl Human and Peter Luhanga

News | 10 July 2024

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Thousands of homes flooded as violent storm batters Western Cape

Roads closed, schools and clinics damaged, rivers burst their banks

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News | 9 July 2024

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New shelter for homeless people in Muizenberg

The site for a 60-bed “Safe Space” is still being finalised

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News | 4 July 2024

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Shelters in Cape Town are filling up as winter bites

The Haven’s shelters are already 85% full

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Brief | 18 June 2024

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In photos: one of the worst places to live in Cape Town

“Our parents lived in this poverty, we are living in this poverty, and now our children are living in this poverty”

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News | 14 June 2024