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Gloria Matsala walks 10km every day to wait for work on the side of the road. This month, she’s earned R100

Jobseekers hope for domestic work

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Feature | 30 January 2019

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Protesters threaten to empty toilets onto road

Msunduzi municipality doesn’t listen, say residents

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News | 30 January 2019

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How a Zimbabwean hospital treated my dying mother

Shutdown hit hospitals hard

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News | 30 January 2019

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School gets toilets after GroundUp report

Pretoria company donates 16 dry toilets to Pietermaritzburg school

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Brief | 30 January 2019

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Evicted from their home, farmworker’s family camp in an old clinic

Sanna Syster lost her rights to her house when her husband died

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News | 30 January 2019

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Asylum seekers forced to go to Port Elizabeth to apply for documents

Applicants can’t wait until promised opening of Cape Town office in June

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Brief | 29 January 2019

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Voter registration rate down from 2014

Electoral Commission encourages young voters to make use of “short window of opportunity”

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Brief | 29 January 2019

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New blow for would-be Mpumalanga coal miner

Surprise move by MEC for Environmental Affairs Vusi Shongwe

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News | 29 January 2019

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Glebelands hostel murder case postponed

Police officer and his co-accused are alleged to have murdered nine men

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Brief | 28 January 2019

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Protesting PE workers say they haven’t been paid

Municipality says those who are owed money will be paid at the end of the month

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Brief | 28 January 2019

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Holes for pit toilets but no toilets

Manzana villagers still waiting for last year’s promise to be kept

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Brief | 28 January 2019

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“I’ve never voted before and I don’t intend to do so now”

Voter registration weekend in Mfuleni

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News | 28 January 2019

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Joburg prisoners claim department is violating court’s order to feed them properly

Correctional Services says it has complied with the order and denies any wrongdoing

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Law | 28 January 2019

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School hit with half-a-million rand water bill

Neighbours tapped into school’s supply

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News | 28 January 2019

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In photos: Bonteheuwel schools show their athletics skills

Usually in the news because of its gang crime, these photos show a happier, more hopeful side of this neighbourhood

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Photo Essay | 25 January 2019

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High Court judge accused of “impeachable conduct”

#UniteBehind has lodged a complaint against Judge Tintswalo Annah Nana Makhubele with the JSC

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News | 25 January 2019

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