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Islamic Relief hijacked in Philippi while helping flooded residents

The organisation has nonetheless continued to provide humanitarian relief

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News | 17 July 2024

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Fhatuwani Sibanda lost his job because Home Affairs said he was a foreigner. But he’s South African

Home Affairs has failed to comply with two court rulings

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News | 17 July 2024

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Lottery grant backlog builds up because Minister has not filled vacancies

3,400 application backlog because of lack of manpower, says NLC

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News | 17 July 2024

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Batten down the hatches: Cape Town families shovel sand to fend off further flooding

We don’t know how we are going to get through this disaster, says Siqalo resident

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News | 16 July 2024

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Angry doctors write to Minister about unpaid Road Accident Fund bills

“We implore you to intervene,” medical experts say to Barbara Creecy

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News | 16 July 2024

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We had no water to put out the flames, say victims of Durban shack fire

Pregnant woman dies as 200 shacks gutted

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News | 15 July 2024

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No electricity for Diepsloot welfare organisations

Eskom says broken transformer can’t be fixed again because the area is high risk

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News | 15 July 2024

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The little charcoal business run by a group of young people in Matatiele

Morumotsho Charcoal has been going for eight years

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News | 15 July 2024

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Shelters scramble as heavy rain continues

Besides a lack of space some shelters are also dealing with flooding

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News | 12 July 2024

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Winelands families battle flooding: “For three days people have not slept”

Relentless rain hampers relief efforts

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News | 12 July 2024

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Food parcels pile up in Gauteng warehouses because food banks have no money to distribute them

Provincial Department of Social Development delays funding

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News | 12 July 2024

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Buffalo City ratepayers march to City Hall, rejecting electricity fee

A monthly maintenance network surcharge of between R376 and more than R700 came into effect on 1 July

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News | 11 July 2024

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Appeal Court rules that City of Cape Town acted unlawfully

Ruling clarifies what constitutes lawful “counter-spoliation” when it comes to land occupation

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News | 11 July 2024

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Census 2022 results are “incoherent and implausible”

Medical Research Council says there is an urgent need for population estimates that better describe the South African population

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News | 11 July 2024

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No, we won’t move, say Butterworth shack dwellers

Residents of Sikiti informal settlement fear they’ll be forgotten if they agree to move to serviced sites nearby

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News | 11 July 2024

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Red tape delays Dunoon housing project

The housing project was first announced to residents in 2018, and construction won’t be starting anytime soon

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News | 11 July 2024