Living on the streets of Vasco: “Law enforcement keeps coming but I still return”

Stephanus Nel is one of an increasing number of people living on the streets in the Cape Town suburb

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News | 20 July 2023

Inside a Cape Flats minstrel band

“This is more than just a band. This is like a family.”

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Photo Essay | 20 July 2023

City of Cape Town has built fewer than 20 social housing units in the inner city in six years, say activists

City says it has made more than 32,000 square metres of land available but there are challenges, including “hijacking” of buildings

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News | 19 July 2023

Pay R10,000 or face a year in prison, court tells former SJC leader

Xolani Klaas pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling a cellphone that belonged to the organisation

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News | 19 July 2023

Hundreds march in Cape Town demanding better housing

Shack dwellers and backyarders say their living conditions are unbearable

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Brief | 17 July 2023

No bail for Langa woman accused of scalding toddler

The 22-year-old will appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court in September on an attempted murder charge

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Brief | 17 July 2023

Burned toddler: woman to appear in court on Friday

More than 1,000 people protest in Langa after assault on four-year-old

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News | 11 July 2023

Philippi man couldn’t save his 6-year-old niece from burning shack

Oyama Meje and two adults died on Sunday night in Phola Park informal settlement fire

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News | 10 July 2023

Two die in Khayelitsha shack fire

Victims of Blowy informal settlement fire were meant to have been relocated

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News | 10 July 2023

Police open murder case after man shot during Cape Town protest

SAPS says the shooting was not related to a protest by shack dwellers from Taiwan settlement in Khayelitsha

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News | 6 July 2023

Dunoon residents battle blaze from their shack roofs

Fire destroys 50 homes, leaving families in the biting cold

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Brief | 6 July 2023

MPs furious that families have still not been moved off Cape Town’s railway tracks

SCOPA chair tells authorities to “shape up or ship out”

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News | 6 July 2023

Safe Space for homeless people in Green Point one step closer

Planning tribunal gives the go-ahead

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News | 5 July 2023

Cape Town’s Central Line will be fully operational before the end of March 2024, says PRASA

Relocation of people living along the track is still unresolved

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News | 5 July 2023

UCT should not host anti-gay professor

Patrick Lumumba’s statements perpetuate lies about same-sex relationships in African history

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Opinion | 4 July 2023

Man accused of robbery beaten and set alight in Samora Machel

This comes weeks after two men accused of crime were killed in Philippi

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News | 3 July 2023