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Post office to phase in payment of social grants from 1 April

CPS cannot just ā€œup and goā€, says post office executive

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News | 13 February 2018

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No water, no business, say Khayelitsha businesses

SJC conducts water audit in informal settlements

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News | 13 February 2018

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Court finds municipality corrupt

Endumeni Civic Association wins housing battle

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News | 13 February 2018

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Endumeni housing judgment is a warning to municipalities

Court finds allocation process irregular and corrupt

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Law | 13 February 2018

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Hundreds left homeless by another fire in Hout Bay

Community members suspect arson

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Afrikaans-speaking parents threaten to close school

Students are failing because there is no teacher to teach their mother tongue

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News | 12 February 2018

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Apartheid survives beyond the grave

Upingtonā€™s neglected cemeteries reflect the divisions of the past

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News | 12 February 2018

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Police target immigrant sex workers in Gauteng

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Mines report progress in preventing deadly silicosis

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News | 12 February 2018

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Mealie sellers taste success

Working six days a week, 12 hours a day, women braai and sell corn to put their children through school

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News | 9 February 2018

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Home Affairs has backlog of 140,000 refugee status appeals

Official admits to rampant corruption at refugee centres

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News | 9 February 2018

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Drought: the silence of the city councillors

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News | 9 February 2018

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Union threatens to shut down Metrorailā€™s Northern Line

Dangerous working conditions a major concern for employees

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News | 8 February 2018

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96% of refugee applications are refused, say lawyers

Home Affairs is ā€œinstitutionally xenophobicā€, Human Rights Commission told

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