Eskom warns that residents who “bridge” electricity will remain in the dark

Tsakane residents without electricity for two weeks block roads in protest

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News | 19 June 2020

Cape Flats families bury their children on Youth Day

“It happens every day, uncle, every single day”

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Photo Essay | 18 June 2020

Covid-19 Report 7: Life-saving drug is good news but no time to pop champagne

Also: Four suggestions for improving peer review, and South African death data

GroundUp and Spotlight staff

Covid-19 Report | 18 June 2020

Covid-19: COSAS closes down Cape Town school

Matric students sent home

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News | 18 June 2020

Eastern Cape mud school “falling apart” say parents

Parents say they have been asking the department for a new school for over 20 years

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News | 18 June 2020

Shack dwellers make up their own housing list for new City of Cape Town project

Dozens try to occupy land set aside for Maroela Project

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News | 18 June 2020

United Civil Society in Action sues GroundUp and the National Lotteries Commission

Case brought after GroundUp exposed dodgy grants and looting of funds

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News | 17 June 2020

Postbank security breach highlights SASSA’s failures

SA Social Security Agency seems unable to administer social grant payments

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Analysis | 17 June 2020

SANCO closes Crossroads school after teacher tests positive for Covid-19

Education department says unnecessary to shut down school

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Brief | 17 June 2020

Teenagers sell fruit and vegetables to help family make ends meet

“Our mother has taught us to work extra hard because we are immigrants”

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News | 17 June 2020

Durban fire leaves 150 people homeless and one dead

One of two serious shack fires in city in 24 hours

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Brief | 15 June 2020

Family of five die in shack fire

Teenage daughter survives as she was visiting her cousin at the time of the fire

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News | 15 June 2020

Civil society steps in to monitor complaints against the police and army

Earlier lockdown restrictions prevented many people from reporting abuses, says activist

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News | 15 June 2020

Covid-19: Durban customers fed-up with bad hair days

Hairstylists find ways to work while salons are closed

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News | 15 June 2020