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Barcelona residents throw poo onto N2

A dispute over who should clean the informal settlement’s toilets is escalating.

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News | 21 January 2016

Robertson parents vow to close down school

They are calling for the Education Department to provide transport for their children.

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News | 21 January 2016

Lindelani residents have to clean communal toilets

No cleaning services since September

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News | 20 January 2016

Wolwerivier without running water

Residents battle in fierce heatwave

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News | 20 January 2016

Security guards accused of bribery

Social grant recipients say they have to pay to get to front of queue.

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News | 18 January 2016

No agreement on who will clean Barcelona’s toilets

The informal settlement's toilets are overflowing and unusable.

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News | 15 January 2016

Rastafarians protest against police brutality

An article by Eduard Grebe highlighting police brutality spurred the Cape Town Rastafarian community to protest outside Woodstock Police Station today.

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News | 14 January 2016

Philippi ward beset by internal politics

There is a political battle underway in Philippi's Ward 33. The fight is not between opposing political parties, however, but within the ANC itself, with former ward councillor Monwabisi Mbaliswano in one corner and the present incumbent, Nico Mzalisi, in the other.

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Feature | 14 January 2016

Court stops City from evicting Newcastle residents

On 14 December, the Western Cape High Court temporarily suspended an eviction order against the group who have been living on the land directly behind the Endlovini informal settlement in Khayelitsha since May 2014.

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News | 12 January 2016

Where are the traffic death statistics?

The government agency responsible for publishing them has not done so since March 2011.

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Feature | 11 January 2016

What do the matric results mean?

Equal Education researchers explain what's promising, and what isn't.

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Analysis | 8 January 2016

I was jailed for filming a police assault

How the cops locked me up for trying to stop police brutality and then carried out an even more vicious beating in front of me.

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News | 8 January 2016

The forgotten people of the Western Cape

Klipheuwel is an informal settlement about 10km north of Durbanville. It seldom gets any news coverage. GroundUp's photographer, Masixole Feni, spent time in the area.

“My son died trying to save our things”

Hout Bay mother describes Boxing Day tragedy.

Future uncertain for Woodstock’s poorest families

Residents of Pine Road informal settlement want houses but fear high rents.

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News | 7 January 2016

Joy and agony as students get their matric results

Most students at Belgravia, Thandokhulu and Athlone high schools were thrilled with their results. In Masiphumelele students were relieved after a tough year.

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News | 6 January 2016