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Hundreds of learners’ schooling affected by a bad bridge

“Our municipality comes and pretends to be maintaining our roads” says Eastern Cape villager

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News | 15 February 2022

Immigrants demand refugee offices reopen after two years of lockdown

Home Affairs has opened services for South Africans but asylum seekers remain shut out

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News | 15 February 2022

Walking Bus volunteers demand pay and recognition

City says there’s no money in budget to pay them

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News | 14 February 2022

School’s dream dashed as donor fails to pay up

Rashid Khan promised tens of millions of rands to an Eastern Cape school but both he and the government have let the community down

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News | 14 February 2022

Immigrant security guards head to court over unfair dismissal payment

Ultimate Protection and Control has failed to pay R300,000 owed to workers as compensation, says lawyer

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News | 14 February 2022

SAFTU protests for R1,500 Basic Income Grant

Zwelinzima Vavi says that the R350 Covid relief grant doesn’t even buy a daily loaf of bread

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News | 11 February 2022

Striking workers claim they were attacked at Clover plant

One worker in hospital since Monday

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News | 10 February 2022

Bungled payroll leaves education assistants unpaid for two months in Eastern Cape

Audit underway to determine which of the province’s 40,000 education assistants were paid

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News | 10 February 2022

Taking healthcare to SASSA queues: pensioners screened for hypertension

About 60% of participants are found to have high blood pressure

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News | 10 February 2022

Angry Mamelodi residents confront councillors after floods

Families say promises have been broken

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News | 9 February 2022

National Lotteries Commission board is no longer quorate

Only three members are left on the board

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News | 9 February 2022

Entrepreneurs turn water crisis into an opportunity

Brakpan and Tsakane families without water for a week

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News | 9 February 2022

PRASA dropped by lawyers as billion-rand corruption deal appeal looms

Siyangena has appealed against the court judgment setting aside its contracts

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News | 9 February 2022

Hundreds of people living on Durban’s streets counted as Census 2022 starts

“I’m happy that we were also counted and the government sees that we also matter,” says Durban homeless man

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News | 7 February 2022

Tenants move into new Conradie Park social housing development in Pinelands

Human Settlements says 432 units in the first phase are to be occupied by April

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News | 7 February 2022