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Mdantsane man’s RDP house given to strangers

Thozamile Mazibukwana has spent years trying to get answers as to why he is left living in a shack

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News | 29 June 2017

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Vrygrond residents accuse taxi association of inciting violence

Police clash with protesters

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News | 28 June 2017

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Gupta-owned company blocks improved health-care in Mpumalanga

This story exemplifies how state capture affects poor people

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News | 28 June 2017

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Mining postponed in water-sensitive Mabola area

Civil society organisations reach agreement with Atha-Africa Ventures

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News | 28 June 2017

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Homeless people evicted from disused property in Cape Town city centre

Evictees claim they improved the place while their neighbours describe it as a “den of prostitution, crime, and drugs”

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News | 28 June 2017

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Newly repaired community hall torched

City officials to meet with Joe Slovo Park leaders in a bid to end protests that started after shack demolitions

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News | 27 June 2017

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Toilets for busy taxi rank after many years

Commuters have been relieving themselves behind food stalls at Port Elizabeth’s Crossroad Taxi Rank

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Brief | 27 June 2017

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South Africa’s confusing emergency numbers

Trying to figure out the best number to dial in a crisis is no easy task

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News | 27 June 2017

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Khayelitsha residents build “speed bumps” after man killed by speeding taxi

In protest they also blocked a main road with a shipping container

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Brief | 27 June 2017

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Soweto drama group all set for the National Arts Festival

Ngizwe community theatre will go to Grahamstown thanks to the festival’s organisers and a sponsor

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Brief | 27 June 2017

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Meet Einstein Sibanda and his free-range chicken farm

“I have had a passion for farming since secondary school”

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News | 27 June 2017

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Thousands attend Eid prayers in Lenasia

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa joins in

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Brief | 26 June 2017

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DRC immigrants protest against Kabila visit

President Jacob Zuma hosted his Congolese counterpart in a bilateral meeting

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News | 26 June 2017

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Joe Slovo Park residents torch MyCiTi bus after shacks demolished

Land occupation followed removal of school classrooms

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News | 26 June 2017

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Khayelitsha cyclist’s dreams coming true

At age 26, Bonga Nqobane has been appointed by Cycling South Africa to connect clubs across the country

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Solutions | 26 June 2017

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No houses for residents relocated two years ago

And no answers from the municipality on Mdantsane’s abandoned housing project

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News | 26 June 2017

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