Leeuwkop prisoner says officials gave him electric shocks in showers: “You feel like you can die”
Source: GroundUp News.
Barred from school by high transport costs: Cottonlands parents demand their own high school
Source: GroundUp News.
Still no houses for Redhill residents: City of Cape Town says construction will start this month
Source: GroundUp News.
Arcadia House: No solution in sight for families as demolition starts: “If we had anywhere else to go, we would gladly go”
Source: GroundUp News.
“We didn’t ask for much” – seven years after the De Doorns uprising: “We are getting to a point where we will definitely see another strike soon”
Source: GroundUp News.
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