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UNISA’s campuses in KZN shut down

Students complain about exam dates and allowances

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News | 6 March 2019

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Community health workers blockade Gauteng Department of Health

Workers have not given up the fight to be made permanent employees

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News | 6 March 2019

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Selling prickly pears by the side of the road

This is not a job for the weak, says Uitenhage woman

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Brief | 6 March 2019

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Social grant paypoints should not be an election issue, MPs warned

Politicians told not to try to keep costly paypoints open

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News | 5 March 2019

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Fire leaves hundreds homeless in Overcome Heights

Luckily no injuries were reported following Monday night’s blaze

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Brief | 5 March 2019

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South Africa’s KAT has begun prowling the universe

MeerKAT is tuning into thousands of “radio channels” at a time

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Science | 5 March 2019

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Home Affairs tells man to come back with his dead mother

Robert Masuku has been voting since 1994 but is registered as an illegal immigrant

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Brief | 5 March 2019

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Activists battle property company over right to protest

Reclaim the City opposes interdict granted to Growthpoint Properties

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News | 5 March 2019

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Green Point fire could have been contained say residents

A lack of water and access roads hindered efforts to douse shack fire in Khayelitsha

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News | 4 March 2019

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“If I was able to do something else, I would,” says teacher

Teaching is tough in overcrowded schools with ill-disciplined sometimes violent learners

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Brief | 4 March 2019

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