UAWU vow to intensify the strike for insourcing
The workers have been on strike for 2 weeks demanding to be insourced by the University of Cape Town.
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No end in sight for N2 Express suspension
Commuters continue to suffer the lack of a safe, reliable and affordable public transport system.
Makhaza residents still waiting for own police station
Insecurity in Khayelitsha as police dawdle in their duties and leave the Neighbourhood Watch without support.
Kuyasa market stalls remain closed after 10 years
Despite spending R180-million on the Kuyasa Interchange in 2008, the market stalls at the station have remained white elephants.
Small-scale farmers march for land and support
The small-scale farmers need common grazing lands to be opened by the municipality so that they can raise their livestock.
Workers strike for insourcing by UCT
A group of about 50 workers, working at UCT but employed by ‘service providers’, took part in a strike to be insourced by the university.
Ex-mineworkers march to Parliament on Marikana Day
Ex-mineworkers marched to demand transparency from government on the monies owed to them.
South Africa’s rape kit crisis
The shortage of rape kits at police stations around the country shows that the police are ill-equipped to combat violence against women.
How preschools can do more to support children living with HIV
Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, children living with HIV are likely to live much longer than they would without treatment. They will go to school like […]
Crime on the Cape Flats ‘stabilising’ – Cele
With typical bluster, Bheki Cele refused to let the fact of a bloody weekend on the Cape Flats ruin his version of the army deployment.
Cape Town’s bloody gang violence is inextricably bound up in its history
When the apartheid government decided to evict people it called Coloured from Cape Town’s inner city, it set off a chain reaction that now requires military intervention. More than […]
‘No plan to provide services’ to Azania Square
While the upgrading of informal settlements programme is government policy to tackle their developmental challenges, the City of Cape Town says that it will not provide services to the new settlement.
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