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Community newspapers cry foul over copyright claims from Reuters, AFP

Association of Independent Publishers says this is “predatory behaviour”

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News | 15 November 2022

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Protesters sleep outside Constitutional Court, demanding apartheid reparations

More than 150 people have been braving the weather for weeks

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News | 15 November 2022

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Woman who survived mountain fall must wait six weeks for operation

Makemiso Ramabitle is in severe pain but her nearest hospital in rural Eastern Cape does not have capacity to perform the necessary surgery

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News | 15 November 2022

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Cape Town mother has to beg for money to buy nappies for her disabled son

15-year-old Donnel, who has hydrocephalus, wants to go to school

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News | 15 November 2022

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What happened to Cape Town’s promised affordable housing policy?

Activists launch report on urgent need for “inclusive” housing policy

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News | 14 November 2022

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Covid: Vaccine drive is running out of steam

Vaccination still helps prevent serious illness and death

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News | 14 November 2022

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Mother makes over 200 calls to Post Offices in desperate bid to get her social grant

Postbank says it is working to resolve the system glitch for all recipients

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News | 11 November 2022

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eThekwini flooded with sewage due to treatment plant failures

Experts and political parties have accused the municipality of minimising the enormity of the sewage pollution

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News | 11 November 2022

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Cikizwa is going to school at last

Education department steps in after GroundUp article

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News | 10 November 2022

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Magistrate accused of bias in eviction case

Venice Burgins had made her views on Communicare clear in social media posts. Yet she failed to recuse herself from a case involving the social housing company.

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News | 9 November 2022

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Dreams deferred for matriculants who can’t get IDs

Without an identity document, hopes of further study are dashed

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News | 8 November 2022

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Many mysteries surround the death of ‘Facebook rapist’ Thabo Bester

SAPS says the outcome of DNA tests to determine the body’s identity can be expected “at any stage”, six months on from the fire.

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News | 8 November 2022

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Terry Pheto’s house may go up for auction to recover Lottery funds

Numerous properties belonging to Lotteries Commission executives, their relatives and cronies frozen by court order

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News | 7 November 2022

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Development will destroy Philippi’s farming, say activists

MEC Bredell to consider new Environmental Impact Assessment and public comments this week for Philippi Horticultural Area

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News | 7 November 2022

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Lavender Hill pool player gives it stick

Shaiyene Fritz says her passion for pool started when she was nine years old

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News | 4 November 2022

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Problems crash Gqeberha 10111 emergency line

Loadshedding, staff shortages and a fire leave residents furious at slow police response

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News | 3 November 2022