Red tape delays Dunoon housing project

The housing project was first announced to residents in 2018, and construction won’t be starting anytime soon

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News | 11 July 2024

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

Another Makhanda water supply deadline missed

The town has experienced water shortages since 2012, but an upgrade to the water treatment works started in 2015 is still not complete

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Brief | 10 July 2024

Army destroys shacks in Marievale, leaving families homeless

Lawyers for Human Rights plans to go to court again

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News | 10 July 2024

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

Kariega flood victims forced to move back to sodden land

Residents of Old Lapland informal settlement protested against returning as they fear the dam wall above them will burst

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News | 9 July 2024

Unless this government fixes SAPS, it won’t meet its other objectives

We need a new approach to policing from Minister Senzo Mchunu

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Opinion | 9 July 2024

Butterworth families evicted by chiefs in 2011 are still waiting for promised houses

People of Bhungeni were moved to make way for a mall which has still not been built

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News | 9 July 2024

Exhibition honours work of late Bang Bang Club photojournalist

Ken Oosterbroek’s “photographs will bring awareness to the importance of photography in the creation of our collective historical record” says curator

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News | 9 July 2024

City of Cape Town buys occupied Marikana land seven years after landmark ruling

Last week Eskom disconnected over 300 illegal connections in the settlement. Hours later people connected them again.

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News | 8 July 2024

Gauteng social development department wants to buy a building but doesn’t know what for

Up to R70-million budgeted for building in central Pretoria

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News | 8 July 2024

City ordered to halt work on historic Salt River hall

Stop works order issued by Heritage Western Cape as no heritage permit obtained

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Brief | 8 July 2024

Farm workers demand transparency on pesticide regulations

Newly appointed Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says protest was “premature”

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Brief | 5 July 2024

Last 100 Paradise Park residents in Hermanus evicted

Decade-long battle to stave off eviction comes to an end

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News | 5 July 2024

Johannesburg Heritage Foundation joins call for library to be reopened

The Louisa Prince Library in Ennerdale has been closed since 2021

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News | 5 July 2024

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