The Lottery and the missing minstrel museum: Six years ago the Lottery gave R13 million for a museum which still does not exist
Source: GroundUp News.
Parow residents burn down suspected drug houses: This followed the accused appearing in the Tazne Van Wyk murder and kidnapping trial
Source: GroundUp News.
Violent protests in PE over failure to relocate shack dwellers: “The residents have been flooded with empty promises by human settlements officials” says ward councillor
Source: GroundUp News.
Our children are not safe at school, picketers tell Western Cape Premier: Equal Education activists picketed Alan Winde’s state of the province address in Mitchells Plain
Source: GroundUp News.
Failing pump floods Addo street with sewage: “Our municipality does not care about its residents”
Source: GroundUp News.
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