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Phola residents say mining has brought misery not benefits

Community members protested at coal mining offices of Seriti over damage to homes from blasting

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Photo Essay | 7 October 2024

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Tshwane non-profit social housing company in business rescue

Yeast City Housing is fighting for survival with debt of over R130-million

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News | 7 October 2024

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Former SA boxer is training Soweto’s future stars

Stephen Msimanga trains 25 youths in his backyard in Orlando East

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Thousands in Cape Town and Johannesburg protest against Israel’s year of massacres

Calls for Israel to be isolated, as South Africa was during apartheid

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News | 5 October 2024

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After six weeks UIF online system still down

COSATU has called on the labour minister to intervene

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News | 4 October 2024

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Minister responds to attack on the Lottery

And NLC Board Chairperson Barney Pityana explains why the Lottery returned R300-million to Treasury

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News | 4 October 2024

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Durban residents without water for eight years picket at city hall

Standpipes in ward 105 have been dry since 2016

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Science | 4 October 2024

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Many Cape Town stations are closed to wheelchair users

And the “People’s Train” is inaccessible to many people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

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News | 4 October 2024

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The public swimming pool in this Eastern Cape town has been empty for four years

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Citrusdal farmers devastated by two years of floods

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Three of four Shosholoza Meyl train routes halted indefinitely

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The fate of the GNU will depend on what it does to fix collapsing municipalities

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Germiston informal settlement neglected since dawn of democracy

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