Brief

Dis-Chem and Blue Ribbon workers march in Cape Town

Unions demand investigation into police behaviour during strike

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Brief | 23 January 2019

Sewers blocked for months in Pietermaritzburg

Municipality admits to a problem with payments to drainage contractor

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Brief | 23 January 2019

Western Cape Education Department says test results have improved across grades

Standardised tests measure language and maths abilities

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Brief | 22 January 2019

Conveyor belt workers picket against payroll system

NUMSA says it is bringing in auditors and SARS to verify payments

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Brief | 18 January 2019

IEC gives students opportunity to register after deadline

This will help out-of-town students to vote

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Brief | 16 January 2019

Ghanaian matriculant gets funding to start university

Company pays half Ebenezer Odei’s fees and will try to crowdfund the balance

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Brief | 16 January 2019

Sexual harassment: Equal Education leader found not guilty

But panel finds General Secretary acted “inappropriately”

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Brief | 16 January 2019

“Overcrowded” Bishop Lavis school to get more teachers

Activists say they will continue protests at other schools in the area

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Brief | 11 January 2019

Amanzimtoti community without water for weeks

Ethekwini Municipality has promised to send water trucks to the community

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Brief | 11 January 2019

Ghanaian matriculant battles with Home Affairs over documents

Ebenezer Odei has been accepted to study at UCT but his residency status causes funding delays

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Brief | 11 January 2019

Ethel Mavaivai has been admitted to university at the age of 26 - but she can’t afford the fees

Immigrants, even if they came to SA as children, do not benefit from free tuition

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Brief | 10 January 2019

City puts an end to land occupation in Mfuleni

Desperate and unemployed mother says she has “nowhere else to go”

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Brief | 9 January 2019

Durban teen set for Special Olympics in UAE

Home Affairs helps Asisipho Sosibo get a birth certificate just in time to compete in March

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Brief | 8 January 2019

Court rules that allocation of police in Western Cape is discriminatory

Victory for Social Justice Coalition may result in poorer areas getting more officers

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Brief | 14 December 2018

Picket against new coal stations at energy summit

Coal-fired power plant plans are “dragging the country’s efforts to address climate change backwards”

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Brief | 11 December 2018

Award-winning children’s book author Dianne Case stabbed 14 times

Protesters at bail hearing hold up 16 days of activism placards

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Brief | 10 December 2018