Residents of informal settlements on Cape Town’s railways ‘live in poop’
Communities along Cape Town’s central line complain of inadequate sanitation and access to water as the plan to relocate them stalls.
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Attempts to relocate land occupiers on Cape Town railway going nowhere
Trains on Prasa’s central line in Cape Town have not run since November 2019, allowing landless people to move on to the railway. It is now unclear when rail services on the city’s busiest line will resume.
Protect The West Coast’s victory checks Trans Hex mining
The agreement reached is a major victory in the ongoing battle to hold mining companies to account.
Plea to transform Clareinch Post Office to a place of healing as Uyinene is remembered
The Uyinene Mrwetyana Foundation, the University of Cape Town (UCT), and civil society organisations marched from Uyinene’s former residence, to the Clareinch Post Office where she was brutally murdered in 2019.
Khayelitsha residents march to Home Affairs
Long snaking queues are the order of the day at the Khayelitsha Home Affairs office.
Activist advocate Ayanda Gladile ‘killed by the township he sought to better’
Advocate Ayanda Gladile was described as someone who had dedicated his life to the struggle. A R100,000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest of his killer/s.
Hungry Western Cape students march against Nsfas while CEO is put on leave
An investigative report, compiled by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa), found that of the 20 mandatory requirements for financial service providers, the four appointed by Nsfas to disburse funds only met five.
Cape Town’s electricity tariff hikes bite
With the cost of living at an all time high, residents of the Cape Flats say they are buckling under the pressure of new electricity tariffs. The City of Cape Town has implemented an increase that the energy regulator itself has condemned.
Thousands of learners left behind by taxi strike
The Western Cape education department says that at the height of the strike, 852,259 learners stayed home from school in the province.
Taxi strike closes five hospitals
The taxi protest in the Western Cape has shuttered clinics at the same time as the number of people needing treatment for violent injury has spiked.
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