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Cofimvaba scholar transport protest enters third week

The Eastern Cape has increased its scholar transport budget to accommodate a shortfall of 12,000 learners

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News | 6 February 2024

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Hospital guards in limbo as EC health department fails to pay security company

Security company says it had to terminate the contract because health department has not paid

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News | 6 February 2024

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Rubbish piles up in growing Mfuleni settlements

More families moved onto land during Covid

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News | 6 February 2024

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Fishing companies take Creecy to court over quotas

Fishing Rights Allocation Process was ā€œrushed and haphazardly allocatedā€ says lawyer for fishers

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News | 5 February 2024

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Minister promises to restore water supply to Durban suburbs by 15 February

Head of the water department in eThekwini told to solely focus on resolving the water crisis by next week

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Brief | 5 February 2024

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Tough judge on the ropes for scathing Road Accident Fund rulings

Judicial Conduct Committee rules Judge Fisher must answer misconduct charge

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Law | 5 February 2024

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Steel mill in Cape Town ordered to comply with air quality regulations

Kamal-CISCO told to cease operations and meet conditions of emissions licence

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News | 5 February 2024

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Illegal dumping swamps Nelson Mandela Bay

ā€œI challenge you to show me open spaces without heaps of garbage in our townships,ā€ says Gqeberha resident

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Brief | 2 February 2024

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Court battle looms over Observatory pavement occupation

The City wants to move the occupiers to Delft South but they say thatā€™s too far away

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News | 2 February 2024

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Battle in Khayelitsha over occupied land

The Khayelitsha Community Trust plans to build a private hospital displacing informal settlement formed during Covid

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News | 2 February 2024

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Tenants say theyā€™ve been abandoned in Benoniā€™s crumbling apartheid-era municipal flats

80-year-old Sarah Govender has lived in the Actonville flats since the 1980s

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News | 2 February 2024

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SCA refuses to hear appeal by dodgy Lottery lawyer

The Legal Practice Council will now have to reconsider GroundUpā€™s complaint against Lesley Ramulifho

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Law | 1 February 2024

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Worker who earns R3,500 per month spends R1,200 on transport

Metrorailā€™s return to service remains extremely limited

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Brief | 1 February 2024

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Nine years later, here is how Wolwerivier is doing

Residents of the Cityā€™s emergency housing development face unemployment, extreme heat, and overcrowding. But ā€œwe have achieved a lotā€ says a community member

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News | 1 February 2024

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Historic Eastern Cape town hall which burned down a year ago still hasnā€™t been repaired

Komani town hall was built in 1882

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News | 1 February 2024

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Gangs make us pay for access to water, say Mamelodi residents

Municipality confirms illegal connections to the reservoir but blames people occupying nearby land

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