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Hundreds of Zimbabweans camp outside consulate in Cape Town

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They want the Zimbabwean government to help them get home safely

Hundreds of Zimbabwean nationals are sleeping outside the Zimbabwean consulate in Cape Town pleading for the government to help them get back home.

On Thursday 18 June, piles of large suitcases and bags wrapped in plastic were strewn on the pavements around the office.… Read more

July guide to Mother City gigs

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Our midwinter solstice has passed, that’s good reason to celebrate

Theatre

A Flea in Her Ear at Magnet Theatre from 24 to 27 June. The iconic French farce written by Georges Feydeau and here directed by Qondiswa James, features the seventh cohort of trainees in their second year of training at Magnet.… Read more

City tests out a shelter for homeless people who are drunk

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The Sober Space project caters for the intoxicated in need of a bed

By Matthew Hirsch

Bonelwa Xaka lived on the streets of Cape Town for more than five years. Now she is a peer support specialist in a “Sober Space” pilot project in Cape Town, set up to offer a place to homeless people who would be turned away from other shelters because they are drunk.… Read more

No to March and March, says Dunoon leadership

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Community leaders say immigration laws should be enforced by the state, not vigilantes

By Peter Luhanga

Community leaders in Dunoon have moved to shut down plans by anti-immigrant groups to march through the township, warning that the campaign against foreign nationals risks inflaming tensions and destabilising a fragile local economy.… Read more

Government waking up to using empty military land for housing

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An estimated 67,000 homes could be built at Ysterplaat, Wingfield and Youngsfield

By Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

For decades, housing activists have been calling for under-used military land in Cape Town to be released for housing. This includes about 668 hectares of well-located land at the Wingfield and Ysterplaat airbases, adjacent to Century City, and at Youngsfield, between Wynberg and Ottery.… Read more

Dozens evicted from informal settlement in Green Point

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DA ward councillor says the eviction follows a long process of engagement with the group

By Matthew Hirsch/GroundUp

Chaos erupted near the Cape Town stadium, along Granger Bay Boulevard in Green Point on Wednesday, when a group of about 40 people living in makeshift shelters were forcibly removed.… Read more