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Families living in community hall since 2018 face eviction

The group of former backyard dwellers have been occupying Gugulethu’s Luyolo hall for four years

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News | 13 October 2022

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Disabled people moved because of Covid are living in filthy conditions

One man in Gqberha had to build his own ramp into his house

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News | 13 October 2022

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Bitter battle over who represents Khoi tribe in Amazon development

Goringhaicona Khoi leader called a fraud and a bully

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News | 13 October 2022

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Security guards conned by student activist hold picket at UCT

Guards ask students for forgiveness and to support their demand to be insourced

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News | 12 October 2022

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Pollsmoor wardens picket for higher wages and better working conditions

“Minister Lamola can you work eight hours everyday for 11 days without a rest?”

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Brief | 12 October 2022

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Villagers have to dig for water because municipality fails to deliver

Water and Sanitation Department says long-awaited Mogogelo bulk water project has finally been completed

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News | 12 October 2022

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Meet Eric Poku, the “Shoe Doctor” of central Pretoria

Cobbler has been stitching the inner city’s shoes for twenty years

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News | 12 October 2022

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Much ado about magic mushrooms

Careful examination reveals there is not enough data

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Science | 12 October 2022

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“People are gatvol” of being “forgotten” by Ekurhuleni mayor

Geluksdal community wants 100kWh of free electricity to be reinstated

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Brief | 11 October 2022

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MEC must pay after child injured in drain acid “experiment”

Cleaner left acid unattended in school toilets while he went on lunch break

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Law | 11 October 2022

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The bloody battle for land and rights in Cato Manor

Although the area is notorious for violence and assassinations, there are many residents working together to make it a better place

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News | 11 October 2022

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About 7.5 million people receive the R350 grant

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu also announces top-up grant for relatives caring for orphans

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News | 11 October 2022

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Housing: time to replace the outdated one-plot-one-house model

We have to build much denser cities

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Opinion | 11 October 2022

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There’s nothing here to vandalise, Dunoon residents tell officials on anti-vandalism drive

Don’t lecture us about “water is life” when we have no water, says activist

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News | 10 October 2022

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The student activist who gaslit workers and cost them their jobs

31 sacked security guards have asked UCT for forgiveness after being misled by Sibusiso Mpendulo

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News | 10 October 2022

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Municipalities must play their role in early childhood development

Local governments can change the policies that are hampering the development of South Africa’s children

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