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Free Bassiouni Protest

Local activists plan to hold a protest outside the African Union Summit in Johannesburg on Friday in support of Dr Abdus Salaam Jad Bassiouni. Dr Bassiouni is an Egyptian born South African citizen who is currently being detained in Egypt without charge and subject to human rights abuses within the[…]

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Authorities monitor Marikana settlement

While calm has returned to Philippi East after violent protests, tensions between the Cape Town communities of Lower Crossroads and the Marikana informal settlement remain high. Marikana community leader, Joseph Makeleni, told News24 community meetings and negotiations would continue “until everyone is happy”. “Our fight was never with the people[…]

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WCape students protest for textbooks

Hundreds of high school learners from a Cape Town School protested outside the Western Cape Department of Education on Thursday to demand more textbooks. Grade 8 to 12 learners from Maitland High School, clad in full school attire and school bags, were bearing paper signs that read, “No textbooks, no[…]

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Cape Flats residents cry for help

Dozens of residents from across the Cape Flats were seen outside of Parliament on Tuesday, in a protest against gang violence that has had communities under siege. The group, a collective of concerned parents and community activists, stood in unison braving the cold, wet weather, to show their dissatisfaction with[…]

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Ethiopians in Israel decry institutional racism

Fed up with being treated as second-class citizens for decades, Israel’s Ethiopian Jews are warning they will no longer stand idly by in the face of institutionalized racism. In the mainly Ethiopian-Jewish area of central town Ramle, there is no sign of the anger that has fueled clashes between protesters[…]

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Protesters set fire to train station in Paarl

The ticketing office of a train station in Mbekweni, Paarl was burnt down on Thursday night during a protest by residents over demands for electricity. Police were deployed from the surrounding areas to handle the situation at about 19:30, Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut told News24 on Friday. “Police took action[…]

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City to ban Seskhona marches

The Seskhona People’s Rights Movement says they are not deterred by the City of Cape Town’s plans to ban the group from marching in the CBD again. This follows after the group marched to the provincial legislature on Thursday and a few protesters broke away from the march and looted[…]

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Seskhona warns of chaos at next march

The Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement has vowed to turn Cape Town’s central business district into chaos the next time the group protests against the Western Cape government. “We will bring 300 000 people to the city centre, and make sure that nothing can move within it,” said Ses’khona leader Andile[…]

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Students stage sit-in at UCT

University of Cape Town students, calling for the removal of the Cecil John Rhodes statue, on Monday said they were staging a sit-in at the campus. “We, the Rhodes Must Fall movement, are occupying the Bremner building with the intention to disrupt the normal processes of management and force management[…]

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UCT monument raises debate

The UCT Palestine Solidarity Forum (PSF) has given its backing for the removal of the controversial Cecil John Rhodes statue, describing it as a symbol of white colonialism and institutionalized racism that persists at the university. This comes after a group of students took to the monument on Monday, dousing[…]

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