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Ward councillor’s office torched in Kariega protest

Parts of KwaNobuhle without electricity since Friday

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Brief | 24 May 2023

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Thabo Bester saga: accused want bail so they can care for their children, lawyers argue

A decision in the bail application is expected on Monday

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News | 24 May 2023

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University of Venda lectures resume after two-day protest

Management has agreed to address most of the students’ demands

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News | 24 May 2023

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One year later and still no judgment in urgent case about access to medicine

Judge Colleen Collis reserved judgment in April 2022 in a matter between Bayer and Clicks

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News | 24 May 2023

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Family of man shot by police in Philippi say they waited five hours for an ambulance

Mhlangabezi Skeyi was shot while trying to connect electricity illegaly

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News | 24 May 2023

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Thabo Bester escape: no reason for bail to be granted, says prosecutor

Lawyers for the accused say they won’t evade trial

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News | 23 May 2023

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Government criticised for blaming Covid for the country’s literacy crisis

Department of basic education needs to take responsibility for “devastating” literacy rates, say opposition and civil society

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News | 23 May 2023

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Khayelitsha families want asbestos roofing removed

Project to fix houses was halted during Covid

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News | 23 May 2023

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Nelson Mandela Bay mayor suspects cable theft as “an act of sabotage”

Power was restored on Monday night to about 50,000 residents following days without electricity

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Brief | 23 May 2023

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Report raises alarm over state of provincial nature reserves

Protected areas critical to the country’s biodiversity and conservation efforts are being badly mismanaged, says the Endangered Wildlife Trust

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Opinion | 23 May 2023

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March in Khayelitsha to mark 10 years of Khumbulani Pride

“There are no other spaces like this” says Triangle Project’s Sharon Cox

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Brief | 23 May 2023

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Amathole villagers drink from the river while new contractor for water project appointed

Municipality takes over drinking water project meant to have been completed last year

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News | 23 May 2023

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Motsoaledi rubbishes Dr Nandipha’s court bid to have her arrest in Tanzania declared “unlawful”

Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person”

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News | 22 May 2023

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Having withstood apartheid removals, District Six families fight eviction by new owner

Original District Six cottages now face the threat of developer’s bulldozers

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News | 22 May 2023

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UCT chair resigns following governance panel’s recommendations

Report makes several findings against Babalwa Ngonyama, particularly in relation to her treatment of former deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange

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News | 22 May 2023

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Bulldozers clear way for mine in Lower Zambezi National Park

Tourism body warned that this would threaten species and actually lose money for the Zambian economy

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Feature | 22 May 2023

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