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Immigrants targeted in Alexandra housing battle

Vigilantes accused of throwing families out of RDP housing

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Feature | 21 February 2019

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Stats SA’s confusing mining employment statistics

Quarterly Labour Force Survey is the definitive source for most sectors, but not for mining

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Analysis | 21 February 2019

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Expropriation Bill: it’s rural black people who are most at risk

Vulnerable communities have lost their land to the state and mining companies in the past decade

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Law | 21 February 2019

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Mboweni receives workers’ demands ahead of budget speech

Minister of Finance addressed marchers outside Parliament

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Brief | 20 February 2019

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University orders students to leave residences following violent protests

Some students say they will not leave

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Brief | 20 February 2019

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Marchers call for better street lighting

“I have been staying in this darkness for about 25 years”

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News | 20 February 2019

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Unemployed for three years, Thulani Ngwenya believes entrepreneurship is the way to go

“There are many opportunities in our townships, it is just a matter of finding them.”

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News | 20 February 2019

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Shackdwellers’ homes destroyed on Valentine’s Day

City of Cape Town says shacks were unoccupied but residents disagree

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News | 20 February 2019

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1,000 families move onto vacant land as mayor freezes evictions

Residents name settlement “Bobani Village” after Nelson Mandela Bay mayor

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Brief | 20 February 2019

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“I want all my rapists to be arrested”

Rape survivor says the police have failed her time and again

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News | 20 February 2019

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COSATU calls for VAT increase to be scrapped

Union federation marches in Cape Town ahead of budget speech tomorrow

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News | 19 February 2019

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Concern over high number of vigilante killings in PE

At least 13 people killed in past four months

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Brief | 19 February 2019

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Angry residents shut down clinic

Patients say clinic is understaffed and service is poor

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Brief | 19 February 2019

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NEHAWU shuts down TVET colleges in Pietermaritzburg

Colleges have been closed since Thursday

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Brief | 19 February 2019

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Controversy follows colourful Australian mining magnate

Mark Caruso has made a handsome profit from South Africa’s natural resources

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Analysis | 19 February 2019

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Farmers, miners and immigrants battle for land at old Vlakfontein mine

Moses Skosana has no title deed although he has been farming on the old mine compound for eight years

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News | 19 February 2019

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