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Month: August 2019

Between high rates of HIV/AIDS and punitive new trafficking laws, India’s sex workers are struggling to assert their humanity

13th August 2019 Equal Times 0

Gauri Dobe vividly remembers the last day of her childhood. It was a summer afternoon, and she had just finished devouring some mangoes. As she […]

Crime on the Cape Flats ‘stabilising’ – Cele

12th August 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

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

8th August 2019 Don Pinnock 0

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

7th August 2019 Sinethemba Mbewana 0

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.

Army deployment having some impact

6th August 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

Improved police visibility and a focus on illegal shebeens are some of the impacts that Nyanga CPF says the army has had since deployment in the township nineteen days ago.

Peeling back the layers on the role of private security companies in Africa

5th August 2019 Jonathan Powell Christopher Michael Faulkner Joshua Lambert 0

Private military and security companies have been regular fixtures in conflicts across the globe. For Africa, these corporations became increasingly visible with their role in […]

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City blames informal settlement residents for overflowing sewage

2nd August 2019 Anathi Mlonyeni 0

The City of Cape Town blames illegal dumping by residents for the overflowing sewage in Kosovo and Samora Machel.

Mothers of slain children march for justice

1st August 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

While the army has been deployed to crime-ridden areas of the Cape Flats, mothers of children slain years before are still marching for the resolution of their cases.

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