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SARS employees on strike over wage dispute

Labour action starts day before 2017/18 filing deadline

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News | 28 March 2019

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State drops sloppy attempt at ‘SLAPP’ suit

Charges dropped against prominent public interest lawyer Richard Spoor

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News | 28 March 2019

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Union warns PE coalition: “If our demands keep falling on deaf ears, someone will fall”

Hundreds of SAMWU workers march to City Hall

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Brief | 28 March 2019

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Activists haul Blade Nzimande to court

#UniteBehind wants PRASA to hand over list of security contracts

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Law | 28 March 2019

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Immigrants robbed and forced to sleep outside in Durban

Victims of latest xenophobic violence blame electioneering by politicians

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News | 28 March 2019

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Soweto commuters in limbo while rival taxi associations quarrel over routes

MEC will keep routes closed until agreement is reached to stop violence

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News | 28 March 2019

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Living just metres from a railway line

Small community says they are terrorised by criminals and police

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News | 28 March 2019

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Children left behind by shortage of scholar transport in East London

Department says it will accommodate the learners from April

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News | 28 March 2019

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Hundreds arrested in PRASA crackdown

Western Cape Regional Manager says copper theft has reached unprecedented levels

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News | 27 March 2019

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Testosterone back in stock after stockout

Solidarity march at UCT to raise awareness about drug shortage

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Brief | 27 March 2019

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“This is not a man’s world”: protesters demand construction jobs for women

Lower Crossroads residents bring school construction to a halt

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News | 27 March 2019

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Community healthcare workers demand recognition as public servants

Frontline health workers in Western Cape subjected to “unjustifiable, irresponsible and unfair treatment”, says union

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Brief | 27 March 2019

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Prisoner alleges beatings at Westville

“They cannot do worse to me than they already have” says inmate

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News | 27 March 2019

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We need lights to keep each other safe, say occupiers of Waterfront property

Protesters call on Western Cape government to restore electricity to occupied building after murder of activist

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News | 27 March 2019

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No sign of Makhado mayor’s promised housing

Two months before the end of the financial year, work on the sites has not begun

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Brief | 27 March 2019

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Top public officials earn more than the president

Head of one agency paid nearly R9 million in 2017/18

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Feature | 27 March 2019

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