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Metro cops, SAPS clash over control

National Lester Kiewit - 5 Aug 2020

Tensions between the City of Cape Town and the police service over responsibilities mirrors the strain between national and local government

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Cape Town suspends metro cops involved in eviction of naked man

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 1 Jul 2020

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

Blindness: How the Strandfontein camp was set up to fail

Coronavirus Jared Sacks - 15 May 2020

The facility in Cape Town was about quarantining the most vulnerable — the homeless — rather than preventing Covid-19

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JP Smith, Cape Town City safety boss faces vote of no confidence

Article Lester Kiewit - 13 Oct 2019

Smith said the motion against him doesn’t have anything to do with issues playing out in the party's leadership, but over disagreements in the Cape DA

Clifton beach security company ‘eff’d’ up again’ — City

Article Lester Kiewit - 3 Jan 2019

The security company ‘effed up again’, says a councillor as the City of Cape Town complains to the regulator about the beach debacle

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City of CT to act against security company, #ReclaimClifton protesters

Article Sarah Evans - 30 Dec 2018

Beach-goers were told to leave Clifton beach by PPA guards last Sunday, two days before Christmas

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CT social housing brought to standstill

Article Raeesa Pather - 9 Nov 2018

Departmental disagreements are halting the development of five prime sites in Cape Town

Silver Town: The picture of devastation

Article Raeesa Pather - 26 Oct 2018

A single image of the aftermath of the blaze cannot tell the whole story

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Five Cape Town councillors resign in support of De Lille

Article Raeesa Pather - 25 Oct 2018

Both caucus deputy leader JP Smith and outgoing mayor Patricia De Lille confirmed the resignations

Evidence in the De Lille dossier

Article Raeesa Pather - 10 Aug 2018

The Cape Town mayor’s supporters and her critics feel disappointed by her resignation deal

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De Lille lining up civil suits against 12 people

Article Paul Herman - 6 Aug 2018

Patricia de Lille says she is not finished with pursuing legal action against 12 people whom she says defamed her

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De Lille, speaker face motions of no confidence in Cape Town council

Article Paul Herman - 26 Jul 2018

The motion against De Lille is the second brought by her own party that she will face in council this year

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De Lille: New motion of no confidence scheduled

Article Paul Herman - 16 Jul 2018

The Democratic Alliance's federal executive will meet this week to give the vote its approval

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‘We may have over-reached’ — JP Smith on trying to curtail De Lille powers

Article Paul Herman - 30 Jun 2018

The DA intends to table a new motion of no confidence against De Lille in council with Smith saying it could happen before the end of July

Taxi peace is cold comfort

Article Govan Whittles - 1 Jun 2018

Rival bosses in Cape Town make up after a bloody feud that claimed the lives of 13 people and wounded commuters

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