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17 December 2024
GroundUp
Museum honours those who were forced out under apartheid
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20 December 2024
GroundUp
Court tells City to provide Bromwell Street residents with temporary emergency accommodation in the inner city as close to their current homes as possible
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22 December 2024
Daily Maverick
Stakeholders expressed dismay that despite alerting the City of Cape Town to a major source of pollution in the vlei more than a year ago, the City had not been forthcoming in addressing the problem. Now the situation has escalated with the vlei closed to all recreational activity since 12 December 2024 due to an algal bloom.
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12 December 2024
The conversation
South African law hasn’t specifically recognised the traditional concept of a communal family house.
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11 December 2024
GroundUp
German-South African collaboration is “greening” urban spaces
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05 December 2024
GroundUp
Volunteers hope the data they collect can be used to improve services
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04 December 2024
Daily Maverick
Want to get tempers rising fast in Cape Town these days? Bring up the topic of digital nomads.
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27 November 2024
GroundUp
The Urban Think Tank Empower project has been in the works for about ten years
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20 November 2024
Daily Maverick
The six-year flow of raw sewage and industry effluent into the Vaal River and Vaal Dam from the Dipaleseng (Balfour) local municipality may be nearing an end at last after the municipality owned up to ‘dire neglect and mismanagement’ of the local wastewater treatment works.
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20 November 2024
Daily Maverick
Activists have warned the Department of Human Settlements against the impact eviction law changes could have on the country’s most vulnerable.
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