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[TOP STORY] Cape Town defends N2 wall and property rates recalibration

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‘We record every single criminal incident and pedestrian death that happens on that road…there have been 2800 such incidents in the last two years or so, a very, very high number,’ says Cape Town mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis.

23 Feb 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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