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Vhutshilo Mountain School offers lifeline to AIDS orphans

Limpopo school has been going strong for nearly 20 years

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Relocation of Langa rail line occupiers delayed by regulations

Rezoning application to move people living next to the Central Line has taken more than a year

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News | 9 October 2024

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Vital water project halted because municipality failed to pay contractors

School where reservoir was being built blocks construction

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Women dig their own pipeline after years of frustration with eThekwini water supply

Many families in Matikwe north of Durban were left out when pipes were installed

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Heroin use has spread as prices plummet

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In this village some people say they drink just one cup of water a day

Water infrastructure was installed in uMsinga in KwaZulu-Natal years ago but has never worked

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Africa Oil Week: Mantashe slams “foreign-funded” activists

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Joburg’s water woes are self-inflicted

The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem

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News | 8 October 2024

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UCT vigil marks a year of war in Gaza

Protesters renew call for boycott

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New blasting limits set for mines - at last

Chief Inspector of Mines publishes South Africa’s first mine blasting standards

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Opinion | 8 October 2024

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Interview: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde answers questions on social housing

Winde explains why R500-million meant for housing went unspent

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Food meant for poor families is rotting in a Gauteng food bank

The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it

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Unions take to the streets to demand decent work

Hundreds of workers march in Cape Town, Joburg and Durban

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Phola residents say mining has brought misery not benefits

Community members protested at coal mining offices of Seriti over damage to homes from blasting

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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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Former SA boxer is training Soweto’s future stars

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