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Woman killed in collision with police van »
12.06.2013 A Cape Town woman died and two police officers and five suspects who had been arrested in Du Noon were injured on Tuesday night when a [...]
- Poo protestors ignore court’s orders
- Mayor’s visit to informal settlement criticised as PR exercise
- World record attempt stymied by lack of documentation
- Elderly protest against abuse
- Documentary sparks anti-Israeli sentiment
- Stokvel members believe chairperson stole funeral plan money
- Couple traverse southern Africa for rhinos
- Community care workers neglected
- Railway residents welcome eviction
Arts
Photo exhibition counters xenophobia »
06.06.2013 While xenophobic flare-ups occurred in Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and the Free State during [...]
Crowd-funded documentary »
03.06.2013 It’s not easy being a graffiti artist in Kabul, especially as a woman. Not only is [...]
An unconventional affair »
31.05.2013 Given that people are not particularly good at it, it is rather odd that monogamy is deemed [...]
Protest
Poo protestors ignore court’s orders
12.06.2013 Despite warnings by a Cape Regional Court magistrate that people may not gather to protest over Cape Town’s ongoing sanitation debacle, hundreds of protestors demonstrated outside the court building on Wednesday. Magistrate A Louis’s warming came as 184 protestors who were arrested transporting bags of human waste into Cape [...]
Elderly protest against abuse
11.06.2013 Scores of elderly people marched to Parliament on Tuesday to protest abuse by young people, and demanded an increase in government pensions. Unless these issues were attended to, they said more protest action would follow in future as “all elderly people” in the Western Cape should band together and be heard. They said they [...]
Youth League members throw faeces at Zille
04.06.2013 Police fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters who threw buckets full of faeces at Premier Helen Zille’s car when she went to address residents in Khayelitsha on Tuesday. The incident follows a small group of protestors emptying the contents of porta-loos on the steps of the provincial legislature on Monday. Zille was [...]
Protestors throw faeces on legislature steps
03.06.2013 Cops remained inside the building when a small group of protesters threw buckets full of human faeces at the doors of the Western Cape Legislature in Wale Street on Monday. The protesters, led by former ANC PR Councillor Andile Lili, ANC Youth League and PR Councillor Loyiso Nkohla and United Democratic Front leader Sulyman [...]
Police staff demand salary upgrades, benefits
29.05.2013 About 1500 Western Cape Police administrative staff took it to the streets of Cape Town on Wednesday in a protest over working conditions and substandard salaries The striking administrative police workers included the police’s emergency call centre line 10111 operators, office clerks, and secretaries of high ranking South [...]
Four injured in attacks following sanitation protest
22.05.2013 Three Sannicare striking workers were hospitalised on Tuesday night following a fight following from protests over the bucket system in Gugulethu’s Europe informal settlement not having been serviced for almost three months. A fourth person, a resident, was also treated in hospital following the attack. Following violent [...]
Human Rights
Mayor’s visit to informal »
11.06.2013 Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille’s brief visit to Barcelona and Kanana informal settlements in Gugulethu was uneventful yesterday (Tues) [Read More]
Environment
Couple traverse southern Africa for rhinos »
10.06.2013 In a bid to raise awareness on rhino conservation, a former nurse and her [...]
Anti fracking campaign hots up following US award »
13.05.2013 The town of Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo is set to become a battle ground [...]
US environmental prize spurs SA anti-fracking campaign »
15.04.2013 The South African anti-fracking campaign looks set to gain ground after [...]
Housing
Railway residents welcome eviction »
06.06.2013 Thousands of residents in Du Noon’s Siyahlala informal settlement who have been illegally occupying land owned by Transnet Freight Rail have welcomed moves to relocate them to alternative land so they can be provided with municipal services. Transnet [Read More]
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