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Chart of the week: Taps but no water

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New oil transfer regulations a ā€˜lifeline for penguinsā€™, says Minister

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Dial-a-Ride cuts: disability groups disappointed by meeting with City of Cape Town

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Give us each a hectare of land, say women farm workers

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Gauteng early childhood development educators protest over funding crisis

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Grant beneficiaries confused by funeral policy deductions

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Limpopo stadium still unfinished after ten years

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Commuters stranded in Somerset West amid deadly taxi violence

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SASSA to bring in biometrics for all social grant applications from September

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Green Scorpions target controversial Garden Route motocross track

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A decade and millions of rands later, Eastern Cape community centre still incomplete

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