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‘We are not too poor to know our rights’: Gugulethu residents demand better service
Hundreds of people from Gugulethu and neighbouring areas held a march on Wednesday 21 June to a local community healthcare centre to hand over a memorandum with their grievances.
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In-patients at rehabilitation centre in Khayelitsha escape
Infighting is threatening to throw into disarray efforts to rehabilitate addicts receiving assistance from the Ilisolakhe Rehabilitation Centre, following the death of one of its “founding members”.
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Men discuss sexual orientation at Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum event on Youth Day
Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum hosted a Men’s Imbizo on Friday 16 June, Youth Day, to change the perceptions men have about the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, intersexual+ (LGBTQIA+) community.
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Density operation in Khayelitsha offers peace over long weekend
Men in Blue and the City of Cape Town’s Law Enforcement officers sent a stern warning to the criminals on Friday 16 June (Youth Day), as they held what they called a Density Operation.
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‘We forget all our stresses here’: Seniors need a support system
Scores of elderly citizens from various senior clubs gathered at Mfesane in Crossroads on Thursday 15 June to commemorate the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
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‘I can’t walk properly’: Debilitating lymphoedema grounds Khayelitsha woman
While people are gallivanting, enjoying life, Lindiwe Dyalivane from Nkanini informal settlement in Khayelitsha is stuck in bed and has nowhere to go because of her rare illness.
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Search still on for mother of dead baby dumped in Samora Machel
Kosovo informal settlement residents in Samora Machel are searching for the mother of a newborn baby that was dumped in the rubbish along White Heart Street on Friday 16 June.
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Taxi bosses gunned down outside a retail store
The Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) is reeling following the shooting and killing of two members in Langa yesterday (15 June).
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‘As the Khayelitsha community we are devastated’: Police and soccer officials killed
In one of the bloodiest weekends, four people, including two police officers, were killed in Khayelitsha in separate incidents on Sunday 11 June.
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Sports complex killings in Khayelitsha ‘not related’ to games
Local football authorities have confirmed that the killing of two sportspeople in Site C Sports Complex in Khayelitsha at the weekend was unrelated to the ongoing Coke Cup games.










