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South African players on international draughts stage

Landikhaya Makeleni of KwaNobuhle hopes to challenge world champion Lubabalo Kondlo of New Brighton

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Brief | 16 August 2019

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Prayer meeting held for shot teenager

Sinazo Kleinbooi, 14, was shot and killed on her way home from school

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Brief | 15 August 2019

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Eastern Cape villagers demand municipality fix their roads

Over 200 residents march to Intsika Yethu Municipality

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Brief | 15 August 2019

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Grade R learners told to avoid the school toilets and use the field

Eastern Cape Education Department says Mangelengele Primary School is too small to invest in

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News | 15 August 2019

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Evicted Nigel families fear separation from their children

Social workers have declared living conditions unhealthy for children

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Brief | 15 August 2019

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I queue for a living

Limpopo man employs five people and charges R50 per queue

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Brief | 15 August 2019

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DTI washes its hands of lottery scandal

Minister Ebrahim Patel is legally obliged to hold the National Lotteries Commission accountable

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News | 15 August 2019

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Social housing gets green light at Salt River Market

Activists say they will only celebrate when they see ground broken

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Brief | 14 August 2019

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Sixty learners to a classroom in Driftsands

Parents shut down Cape Town school because of overcrowding

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Brief | 14 August 2019

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Day zero in Butterworth

Not drought but municipalities caused water crisis, say residents

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Brief | 14 August 2019

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EFF’s sinister sudden interest in PRASA

Party questions corruption investigation instead of corruption itself

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Analysis | 14 August 2019

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What Appeal Court’s fracking judgment means

Ruling may lead to better environmental oversight

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Law | 14 August 2019

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RDP beneficiaries live with shoddy construction

“I was a backyarder on the housing list for 33 years before I received this house … I am so disappointed”

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News | 14 August 2019

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No internet for over a year at Lwandle public library

City says cable theft and “excessively high” costs of 3G data are to blame

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Brief | 14 August 2019

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Immigrants arrested in JHB raids say they showed police valid papers

Magistrate orders hundreds to be sent to Lindela detention centre

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News | 13 August 2019

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Family of six no longer has to survive on one old age pension

Mayor and government intervene to help Flagstaff family get IDs, social grants and a better home

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Brief | 13 August 2019

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