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Graduates march to demand police work

They say they have the qualifications and there are staff shortages in the police department but they remain unemployed

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Brief | 26 September 2024

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Trash dumped at councillor’s office in electricity protest

Power has not been restored for a year to Dunoon fire victims

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Brief | 26 September 2024

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Child malnutrition in the Eastern Cape has more than doubled

Community project in Duncan Village helps feed hungry children

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News | 26 September 2024

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Progress at last on Woodstock Hospital occupation?

After seven years the City of Cape Town and the occupiers appear to be finding common ground but difficulties lie ahead

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News | 26 September 2024

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One-armed man has to build his own house

Cofimvaba villager Bongani Mgqebisa has given up waiting for an RDP house

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News | 26 September 2024

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Eight years without running water in eThekwini

Water trucks come to villages on the municipality’s rural outskirts twice a month

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News | 26 September 2024

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Municipality demands contractor pay for delays to Limpopo stadium

Construction started in August 2023 and nearly half the work has still not been done

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News | 26 September 2024

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Welfare organisations unpaid for six months by Gauteng government

This is despite having signed agreements with the provincial Department of Social Development

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News | 25 September 2024

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Press Ombudsman orders TimesLIVE to give correct account of facts

Complaint lodged by GroundUp partially upheld

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Law | 25 September 2024

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Villagers have had no tap water for 15 years, but they live 3km from a dam

The Maluti-a-Phofung municipality is intermittently supplying Jwala-Boholo and Qoqolosing villages with water trucks

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Brief | 25 September 2024

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Strand residents worried about ‘out of hand’ illegal dumping

City says it currently manages about 2.1-million tonnes of waste annually across the metro

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News | 25 September 2024

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Pretoria township devastated by fire

800 homes destroyed

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News | 23 September 2024

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Visually impaired recyclers help the planet

Activists with disabilities are raising awareness about climate change

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Photo Essay | 23 September 2024

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Using carbon dating to stop elephant and rhino poaching

But even a controlled ivory trade may send the wrong message

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Science | 23 September 2024

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State of police college shocks Parliamentary committee

Allegations of corruption, criminality, and dilapidated facilities greet the Portfolio Committee on Police

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News | 20 September 2024

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Cape Town lawyer accused of racially motivated attack takes the stand

Gary Trappler says he’s a “nosy neighbour”, not a tyre slasher

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Brief | 20 September 2024

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