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The battle of Trafalgar’s flowers sellers

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By Matthew Hirsch
| BusinessLIVE Verified
Trafalgar Place is a splash of colour against the grey formality of Adderley Street. Buckets of proteas, roses and gladioli crowd the pavement and the air is thick with the scent of fresh blooms. For 45 years, sisters Alison and Karen Snyders have sold flowers here, at prices that started at R1 a bunch. “It’s a family thing; it’s going from generation to generation,” Alison tells the FM.
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Jomba! returns with a global programme where dance becomes a language of activism

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By Debbie Hathway Verified, Matthew Hirsch, Madelain Roscher
| Bizcommunity Verified
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Advertise your job vacancies Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries For almost three decades, Jomba! has been a fixture on South Africa's contemporary dance calendar. This year, the festival returns to Durban with a programme that places movement at the centre of conversations around identity, activism and social change, while showcasing artists from across Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and South America.
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A landmark victory — but the war for housing continues

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By Matthew Hirsch
| BusinessLIVE Verified
“A city’s architecture tells the story of its soul. In Cape Town, as in most, if not all, South African cities, that story remains one of division.” These words are in a landmark Constitutional Court judgment declaring unlawful the Western Cape government’s 2015 decision to sell the Tafelberg school buildings and land in Cape Town. It ended a decade-long litigation battle between housing activist groups Ndifuna Ukwazi and Reclaim the City and the Western Cape government.
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