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“Post office is crumbling under the pressure” says social grant activist

This comes as millions of gold SASSA cards will be expiring soon

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News | 6 April 2023

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Children are dying from izinyoka electricity while Tongaat families wait to be housed

Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project

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News | 6 April 2023

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New vaccine will save thousands of children from dying of pneumonia

Trial of vaccine to prevent RSV was led by Wits vaccinologist Shabir Madhi and showed 82% efficacy

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News | 6 April 2023

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Bid to seize ANC assets after failure to pay R102-million bill

KwaZulu-Natal marketing company has still not been paid for election posters and banners provided four years ago

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News | 5 April 2023

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Human waste litters the ground in Mountain View - and City of Tshwane has no plans to fix it anytime soon

The City says families living there will be moved when it finds land

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News | 5 April 2023

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For some, this soup is the only meal of the day

Soup kitchen in Mfuleni in Cape Town feeds hundreds

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Feature | 5 April 2023

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UCT failed to bargain with Employees’ Union, says CCMA

The university has now committed to enter into negotiations with the union soon

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Brief | 4 April 2023

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Parliamentary briefing on Thabo Bester postponed after G4S no-show

“Accountability to Parliament is not optional,” says committee chair

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News | 4 April 2023

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Cleaners in a Durban township say they use their own money to fix broken toilets

The eThekwini Municipality says it will investigate claims that janitors don’t have materials and that most of the toilets in the settlement are broken

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Brief | 4 April 2023

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Living conditions at “transit camp” in eThekwini Municipality are inhumane, say residents

Camp was intended as temporary housing but 11 years later, many families are still there

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News | 4 April 2023

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Special Investigating Unit to ask President Ramaphosa to extend its Lottery probe

SIU wants to probe procurement by the National Lotteries Commission

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News | 3 April 2023

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Is PRASA using lawyers unlawfully?

Rail agency uses firm not on its legal panel despite warnings by National Treasury

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News | 3 April 2023

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Social workers attacked and under severe strain in Cape Town townships

Western Cape will hire an extra 247 social workers for the coming financial year

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News | 3 April 2023

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Calls mount for unused military and state land to be released for housing

Housing Development Agency slammed for inaction

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News | 31 March 2023

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Ramaphosa asked to speak out on Uganda’s homophobic law

About 100 members of the LGBT community marched to Parliament

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Brief | 31 March 2023

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Canoe polo: Stellenbosch farm children paddle to success

Four players will be representing South Africa at the Junior International Championships

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Video | 31 March 2023

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