Cape Town students and teachers address diversity

Programme teaches inclusivity whether gay, lesbian, transgender, black, white, brown, girl, boy, from the city or the country, says activist founder

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News | 24 May 2017

Cops close shop because it is “foreign-owned”

Wallacedene residents react angrily to what appears to be officially sanctioned xenophobia

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News | 22 May 2017

Street lighting in Khayelitsha and Nyanga – a crime story

“You can never send your child to the shop after 7pm. Parents live in fear.”

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News | 22 May 2017

Helen Zille responds to Sheila Madikane’s open letter

“We regard the provision of more affordable housing on well-located land a top priority for our government”

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Opinion | 22 May 2017

Massive land occupation in Khayelitsha

Residents say the land has stood unoccupied for decades

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News | 19 May 2017

Masiphumelele residents reject City mediators

They want to select their own person, and they also want a plan for the development of the township to be made public before negotiations over contested issues begin

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Brief | 19 May 2017

What happens when the dams run dry?

Mayor Patricia de Lille: “We are going to have to cut the water off for long hours like with load-shedding”

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News | 19 May 2017

Homeless and hungry at UWC

Some students at the University of the Western Cape live in makeshift conditions and go to bed on empty stomachs

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News | 19 May 2017

What needs to be done about Cape Town’s water crisis

“Decision making … is now lagging too far behind our current reality”

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News | 18 May 2017

Judge defends his behaviour in case to have him replaced

Leslie Weinkove says he wasn’t being antagonistic when he referred to Charnell Commando as “just a kitchen assistant”

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Law | 18 May 2017

Cape Town’s bursting trains

Commuters complain of overcrowded and delays

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News | 18 May 2017

The moral dilemmas of embedded journalism

I was excited to go on a police ride-along but by the end of it I wondered if I’d compromised my ethics

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Opinion | 18 May 2017

An open letter to Premier Helen Zille

Domestic workers’ struggle for housing, not a hidden agenda, is behind the campaign for Tafelberg

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Opinion | 18 May 2017

Here’s where to find data on Cape Town’s water crisis

Government, the weather service and academics need to do better at making data and analysis of the water crisis available

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News | 17 May 2017

Marikana residents clean up rubbish dump

Garbage has not been removed for nine months

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News | 17 May 2017