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Health department misses another deadline to provide nurses with uniforms

The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November

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News | 10 September 2024

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Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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News | 9 September 2024

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Woman in wheelchair narrowly escapes death in Dunoon shack fire

Nearly 50 people left homeless

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Brief | 9 September 2024

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Province tells City of Cape Town to clean up Dunoon

Warning on pollution and health hazards in informal settlement

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Brief | 9 September 2024

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At least 116 children died from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in one year

Conference on hunger hears there’s more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger.

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News | 9 September 2024

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Premier Group goes to court to end Mister Sweet strike

Strike at Germiston factory enters fourth week

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News | 9 September 2024

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Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

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News | 9 September 2024

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Small West Coast town is the world capital of this delicacy

In photos: Velddrif’s bokkom industry

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Photo Essay | 9 September 2024

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Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments

Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January

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News | 7 September 2024

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PRASA ordered to return building materials to land occupiers

Court ruling follows interdict against eviction sought by housing activist organisation

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Brief | 6 September 2024

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Durban commuters stranded while PRASA and Transnet haggle over repairs

KwaMashu and North Coast lines not operational

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How much worse are coloured plastics for the environment?

Studies are finding more reason to boycott coloured plastic products

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Science | 6 September 2024

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Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

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News | 6 September 2024

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UIF online services frozen in court battle

Interim interdict stopped the UIF’s new service provider from rendering IT services

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News | 5 September 2024

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Eskom office closure in Mpumalanga leaves customers frustrated

Residents still turning up to report electricity supply problems months after Kwagga Mall customer hub closed

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Women in Limpopo village had to dig their own water well

Vhembe District Municipality says repairs to faulty boreholes across Elim will be done by end September

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