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“This place, honestly, has saved my life”

Shelters to get boost from City of Cape Town for winter

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News | 14 May 2018

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Cheese factory has to secure its property or risk losing it

EbuMnandini residents interdicted from occupying Cremona land until September

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News | 12 May 2018

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Court orders PRASA to release audio recordings

Tapes will show whether board took decision to disband Legal Panel

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News | 11 May 2018

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Cape Town councillor promises new social housing by 2019

Activists vow to continue occupying Helen Bowden Nursing Home and Woodstock Hospital

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News | 11 May 2018

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No money to improve school says KZN education department

Protests enter third week at Pietermaritzburg high school

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News | 11 May 2018

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School children have to use a field as a toilet

We feel abandoned by the government, says parent

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Brief | 11 May 2018

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Three years on, still no result of SAHRC investigation into Old Mutual

Commission still looking into closure of cricket club in 2015

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Brief | 11 May 2018

ARTICLE RETRACTED: R22 million Red Location Museum slowly being stripped nail by nail

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News | 11 May 2018

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Miners protest for better safety following Sibanye Stillwater deaths

Unions say there have been 33 fatalities so far in 2018

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News | 11 May 2018

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Teen judo fighter from Uitenhage flies to Burundi

Lithemba Magajana found a sponsor to the African Judo Cadet Championship

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Brief | 10 May 2018

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When losing your job means losing your home

Former farm worker battles to keep house on Ceres farm but farmer says there is a shortage of homes for current workers

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News | 10 May 2018

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Understanding the Michael Komape judgment

It’s a setback for the family, but it will help the campaign to end pit toilets in schools

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Law | 10 May 2018

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Woman had to buy fake permit to get child into school

No place at school without a study permit, but no study permit without a place in school, complain Zimbabwean parents

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News | 10 May 2018

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Refugee organisations take Home Affairs to court for defying judges

More than a month after the deadline, still no fully functioning refugee centre in Cape Town

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News | 10 May 2018

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City explains new water tariffs

Higher fixed monthly charge will help pay for new sources of water for Cape Town

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News | 10 May 2018

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Protesters call for head of UNAIDS to go

Michel Sidibé apologises to AIDS activists but they say it’s not good enough

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News | 10 May 2018

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