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Many people will be experiencing the destruction to the campus after the blaze for the first time, having previously seen only photos of the aftermath
Students, alumni and staff share their memories and thoughts after blaze leaves a path of devastation at the UCT and its Jagger Reading Room
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Clean-up operations and repairs to infrastructure are being initiated, while the full extent of the damage wrought by the fire is still being assessed
Fresh firefighting teams are expected to take over from the crews that battled the blaze throughout Monday evening
Authorities confirmed the fire had been largely contained by early Monday afternoon, although reports suggest the fire had jumped the road near Tafelberg Drive
This separate fire was not an extension of the Rhodes Memorial fire, according to authorities
The Rhodes Memorial Fire is still not under control as strong winds
fuel the blazes, which have spread to the residential area of Vredehoek
Public infrastructure was allegedly damaged by the activist group in 2019 and by the Economic Freedom Fighters in 2020
Leaders of the Intlungu YaseMatyotyombeni Movement say they are protesting for the delivery of basic services and better housing
Youths can learn new skills and earn money at The Shackbuilder training institute, where how to build a shack is on the curriculum
At least 50 more police and other law enforcement officers were sent to the area in response to the spate of violence
The City of Cape Town has called on the police and transport ministers to establish a police unit to investigate public transportation crimes
Right of reply to How to whitewash colonial pain and trauma, published in the Mail & Guardian 24 September
The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase
The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor
The South African Human Rights Commission and housing activists brought — and won — an application to halt lockdown demolitions of what the City of Cape Town said were unoccupied dwellings
Tensions between the City of Cape Town and the police service over responsibilities mirrors the strain between national and local government
The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions
The City of Cape Town in June twice knocked down structures on land allocated for other purposes. The city says these were not evictions; residents ask why no police are available for rapes and murders
Four police officers are being investigated after a video of them evicting a man, who had been bathing at the time, was circulated on social media
What was the City of Cape Town thinking when it decided to round up homeless people and put them in a camp?
Our government’s Covid-19 response and regulations must be subject to stringent monitoring to ensure womxn’s safety and security. This is why the Women’s Legal Centre will be an amicus curae in the case between the City of Cape Town and the SAHRC
The City of Cape Town is being accused of negligence as it closes the Strandfontein safety camp without testing all the people who leave
Independent reports slam Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless facility, but the city says conditions have improved since independent monitors visited
Independent reports slam Cape Town’s Covid-19 homeless site, the city says things have improved since independent monitors visited the site
Cape Town Metro dismisses criticism that it illegally evicted people from a Khayelitsha settlement during the Covid-19 lockdown, arguing it was only demolishing unoccupied shacks
In pushing for differences in how Covid-19 regulations are applied, such as with the proposed sale of cigarettes, the Western Cape provincial government is testing national lockdown law
The fund chairperson says while they may consider Cosatu’s plan to use state pensions to bail out Eskom, the deal has to be within its ambit
Asylum seekers will leave the Cape Town church, but most do not have documents, a situation they blame on the home affairs department
Headaches, bloody noses and metal shards falling out of the sky — people in Kuils River say living next to a factory is sickening