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Churches plead with residents to stop dumping rubbish

Illegal dumping costs Cape Town R350 million a year

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News | 28 January 2016

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Softball body battling to keep its head above water

R100k needed to send Cape Town teams to national competition

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News | 28 January 2016

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How a rural hospital has become a model of good care

If all hospitals were like this we could implement National Health Insurance tomorrow

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Opinion | 28 January 2016

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CPUT students challenge suspensions in court

Application brought to change interdict against them

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News | 27 January 2016

Quiet walk home turns into nightmare for Malawians

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Asylum-seeker spends six weeks in prison

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Disabled UCT students demand access

"It’s not that we are being difficult or trying to make people's lives harder. We just want access to the education we paid for."

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News | 27 January 2016

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Parents refuse to pay for teachers who don’t teach

School accused of victimising children

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News | 27 January 2016

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Mfuleni residents demand new cemetery

City says land has been set aside

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News | 27 January 2016

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Gay activist attacked in Port Elizabeth tavern

Cape Town man says police refused to open docket

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News | 27 January 2016

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Students close down Masiphumelele school

Protest against levy, textbooks, suspensions

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News | 26 January 2016

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Drought bites into the budgets of the poor

Consumers report rising prices of staple foods

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News | 26 January 2016

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UCT’s new plan to deal with student debt

Students allowed to register if they convert debt into a new loan

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News | 26 January 2016

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Will North West premier depose tainted tribal leader?

Or do too many politicians have a vested interest in his continued reign?

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Analysis | 25 January 2016

Cosatu decision to host WFTU questioned

25 January 2016   OPINION

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Federation's hosting of controversial congress might cause rift with overseas trade unions

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Unions slam teacher allocation policy

African and rural schools disadvantaged, says SADTU

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News | 25 January 2016

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WEF has no answers for job losses

Klaus Schwab has blinkered view of robotics revolution and employment

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