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Farmers need support after devastating Riverlands flood

A lack of security of tenure and of agricultural support from government has compounded the disaster

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Opinion | 20 August 2024

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Riverlands families struggle to pick up the pieces after flash floods

Clean-up operations are underway

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News | 20 August 2024

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Pensioners dropped from Community Works Programme

Department of Co-operative Governance wants to end “double-dipping”

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News | 20 August 2024

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SASSA office in Strand will only re-open after September

Applicants for grants urged to use the online system

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Brief | 20 August 2024

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Households left without electricity as Eskom implements load reduction

Power utility says this is necessary to protect transformers overloaded by illegal connections

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News | 20 August 2024

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Mpumalanga village has had no police station since two cops were killed there in 2002

The safety of our members is also important, says SAPS spokesperson

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News | 20 August 2024

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Vets are leaving South Africa in droves

They battle tough working environments in rural areas

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News | 20 August 2024

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Shops destroyed by fire in downtown Joburg

Ward councillor believes the building had been hijacked

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Brief | 19 August 2024

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Police minister’s legal tardiness opens way for default rape case judgment

Leave to appeal in transgender case turned down by High Court

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News | 19 August 2024

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Project to make taxi criminals easier to identify

Sticker campaign launched in Kariega

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Brief | 19 August 2024

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Judge slams lawyers who preyed on refugees

Attorneys and advocate who did “a cut and paste job” for clients ordered to pay the costs from their own pockets

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Law | 19 August 2024

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Trains now run to Khayelitsha, but the Central Line is still not fully operational

Metrorail says work on remaining stations was delayed by rains

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News | 19 August 2024

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PRASA’s hiring and firing of CEO has cost R15-million and counting

Zolani Matthews has been given the boot again, this time for “operational reasons”

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News | 17 August 2024

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Fired security guards have been sleeping outside health department in Johannesburg for four months

They say they are owed money and want the department to intervene with their former employers

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News | 16 August 2024

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Pre-dawn operation moves homeless people off Cape Town’s streets

City is offering “Safe Space” shelters but some people don’t want to go there

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News | 16 August 2024

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Protesting residents shot outside KZN ward councillor’s house

Injured protestor said he was shot by one of councillor’s bodyguards

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News | 16 August 2024

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