Residents stop IEC registering voters in Philippi

Community leaders say elections make no difference to their terrible living conditions

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Brief | 21 November 2023

Mandela Park shacks petrol-bombed

This is the latest in a series of attacks on this group of land occupiers since August

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News | 21 November 2023

Gaza: UCT senate calls for ceasefire

In a statement it also called for “the release of hostages and unlawfully held prisoners”

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Brief | 20 November 2023

Khayelitsha residents document their daily struggle with toilets

Photographic exhibition shows access to sanitation from the perspective of people living in informal settlements

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Brief | 20 November 2023

Bheki Cele responds to police assault

Minister says video of police beating Juma Igiranieza looks like grievous bodily harm

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Brief | 20 November 2023

Farm worker family evicted, belongings dumped on the side of the road

“I am broken” says Jan Marthinus, in tears after his family was left homeless

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News | 20 November 2023

Gift of the Givers Gaza head “paid the ultimate sacrifice”

Memorial held for Ahmed Abbasi in St George’s Cathedral

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News | 20 November 2023

Sewage in the sea: City fails to meet Hout Bay permit conditions

The City of Cape Town’s own data shows it is releasing more sewage than is allowed

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News | 17 November 2023

Public works slammed for mismanagement of prime Cape Town property

A two-hectare property and heritage buildings have been left to ruin

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News | 17 November 2023

Spoekiesdorp families haunted by past evictions and uncertain future

“Many of us are here because we were evicted from farms. We were dumped here”

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News | 17 November 2023

Western Cape small-scale fishers finally get their rights

Fisheries department announces long-awaited permits finalised in the Western Cape

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News | 15 November 2023

Activists doorstop police to demand answers for brutal barbershop assault

Police and IPID silent on the investigation into the assault of Juma Igiranieza on 7 November

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Brief | 15 November 2023

Shack dwellers want sand mining halted

They say the sand is damaging their shacks. The City of Cape Town says the affected households will only be relocated in 2024

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News | 15 November 2023

Khayelitsha schools battle illegal electricity connections

Electricity theft has left Nomsa Maphongwana Primary School in Mandela Park with a Eskom bill of more than R167,880

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News | 15 November 2023

Pro-Israel protest disrupted in Cape Town

Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis calls for tolerance, emphasises right to protest and condemns threat against Jewish school

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Photo Essay | 12 November 2023