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Tshwane non-profit social housing company in business rescue

Yeast City Housing is fighting for survival with debt of over R130-million

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News | 7 October 2024

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Former SA boxer is training Soweto’s future stars

Stephen Msimanga trains 25 youths in his backyard in Orlando East

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Brief | 7 October 2024

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Thousands in Cape Town and Johannesburg protest against Israel’s year of massacres

Calls for Israel to be isolated, as South Africa was during apartheid

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News | 5 October 2024

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After six weeks UIF online system still down

COSATU has called on the labour minister to intervene

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News | 4 October 2024

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Minister responds to attack on the Lottery

And NLC Board Chairperson Barney Pityana explains why the Lottery returned R300-million to Treasury

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News | 4 October 2024

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Durban residents without water for eight years picket at city hall

Standpipes in ward 105 have been dry since 2016

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Brief | 4 October 2024

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Why do potholes occur?

Poor road construction, inadequate drainage and insufficient maintenance are the main causes

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Science | 4 October 2024

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Many Cape Town stations are closed to wheelchair users

And the “People’s Train” is inaccessible to many people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Rooigevaar in Saldanha: residents say red dust from Transnet’s ore terminal is staining their homes and even their dogs

But Transnet says the dust falls below legal limits

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News | 4 October 2024

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The public swimming pool in this Eastern Cape town has been empty for four years

Ngcobo residents fear the pool will be vandalised and never reopen

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Brief | 3 October 2024

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Citrusdal farmers devastated by two years of floods

But they are determined to start over and revive their vegetable gardens yet again

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News | 3 October 2024

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Three of four Shosholoza Meyl train routes halted indefinitely

#UniteBehind believes problems with long distance locomotives is due to corruption at PRASA over the years.

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News | 3 October 2024

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The fate of the GNU will depend on what it does to fix collapsing municipalities

The Government of National Unity offers an opportunity to take practical steps

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Opinion | 3 October 2024

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Germiston informal settlement neglected since dawn of democracy

“We have rats that are as big as cats here”

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Brief | 2 October 2024

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More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September

Most applicants have never had a job

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