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Cars destroyed by fire in Free State government pound

Owners find their cars burned to cinders

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City of Cape Town pushes for plan from PRASA to manage commuter rail

Legal correspondence over finalisation of rail agreement exchanged

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PRASA accused of contempt of court

The rail agency was ordered to restore shelter to people it evicted from Cape Town Foreshore in August

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Health department misses another deadline to provide nurses with uniforms

The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November

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Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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Woman in wheelchair narrowly escapes death in Dunoon shack fire

Nearly 50 people left homeless

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Brief | 9 September 2024

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Province tells City of Cape Town to clean up Dunoon

Warning on pollution and health hazards in informal settlement

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At least 116 children died from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in one year

Conference on hunger hears there’s more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger.

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Premier Group goes to court to end Mister Sweet strike

Strike at Germiston factory enters fourth week

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Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

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Small West Coast town is the world capital of this delicacy

In photos: Velddrif’s bokkom industry

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Photo Essay | 9 September 2024

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Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments

Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January

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PRASA ordered to return building materials to land occupiers

Court ruling follows interdict against eviction sought by housing activist organisation

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Brief | 6 September 2024

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Durban commuters stranded while PRASA and Transnet haggle over repairs

KwaMashu and North Coast lines not operational

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Brief | 6 September 2024

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How much worse are coloured plastics for the environment?

Studies are finding more reason to boycott coloured plastic products

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Science | 6 September 2024

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Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

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  5. Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

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