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Residents look forward to government officials travelling on potholed road and “feeling their pain”

Willowfontein residents fed up with broken promises

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News | 17 January 2020

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Domestic workers fight for national minimum wage

“We buy in the same shops, so we must be treated like all workers”

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News | 17 January 2020

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SA’s new refugee regulations could have been drafted by Trump, says activist

Ban on political activity is “illegal, unconstitutional and contrary to the UN convention on refugees”

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Law | 17 January 2020

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Fed-up after 20 years on a waiting list, gogo builds her own house

Gloria Matebe collected the wood to build her new home from a nearby dumpsite

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News | 17 January 2020

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Bonnytoun residents ignored by City of Cape Town

“We will not protest and destroy infrastructure like other communities do, but we are asking the City to do their work.”

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Brief | 17 January 2020

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Woodstock pensioner fights her eviction

Landlord pushed up rent by 37%

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News | 16 January 2020

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Lawyers dump PRASA after failure to pay R19 million

This means the agency has no lawyers in disputes, some of them imminent, involving billions of rands

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News | 16 January 2020

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Former municipal workers fight labour broker issue

Ekurhuleni case heard in Labour Court

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News | 16 January 2020

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Talks deadlock as PE bus strike enters fourth week

Workers want to be employed directly by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality

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Brief | 16 January 2020

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