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6,000 people sign petition demanding City of Cape Town comes clean on water quality

Three vleis are still closed to the public because of sewage spills

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News | 26 August 2021

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Prisoners accuse government of parole delays

While Correctional Services denies there is a backlog, the Judicial Inspectorate says there is a problem

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News | 26 August 2021

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Jobseekers flock to proposed Amazon site in Cape Town

Hundreds queue at River Club development in the hope of getting work

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News | 26 August 2021

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“I’m scared to be among my own brothers and sisters” says gay Zimbabwean activist

A week ago a man living in Langa was assaulted by two other Zimbabwean men

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News | 25 August 2021

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City of Cape Town demolishes tent camp, leaving homeless without shelter

Law enforcement removes people living near the Green Point Tennis Courts

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News | 25 August 2021

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Developers try to overturn sale of land for Cape Town housing development

Covid-19 triggered a plan to move families from overcrowded Dunoon informal settlements, but more than a year later, they’re still there

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News | 25 August 2021

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Bathabile Dlamini to be prosecuted for perjury

Black Sash and Centre for Applied Legal Studies welcome the “message that everyone is equal before the law”

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News | 24 August 2021

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Families want electricity bills from lockdown to be scrapped

Cape Winelands municipality battling to recover steep outstanding bills

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News | 24 August 2021

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PRASA promises to fix Pretoria’s collapsing train stations

The rail agency says it plans to make its dilapidated stations “functional” by end of March and address their “look and feel” by December 2022

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News | 23 August 2021

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Delft families waiting for years to have electricity restored

Power outage blamed on illegal connections at Tsunami informal settlement

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News | 23 August 2021

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Health department takes vaccination drive to taxi rank

To boost its vaccination numbers KZN is trying various initiatives including drive-through vaccine sites

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News | 23 August 2021

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Auditor-General declines request to investigate irregular Lottery grants

Cape minstrel organisation needs an audit, says former MP

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News | 23 August 2021

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Over 20 learners injured as taxi crashes into barrier at Parliament

It is alleged that the taxi was overcrowded and the driver and vehicle were unlicensed

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News | 20 August 2021

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Joburg’s informal traders call for police to stop confiscating their goods

Traders pay between R1,600 and R3,000 to retrieve their stock

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News | 20 August 2021

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R10 million in Lottery funding for a Limpopo children’s centre didn’t go to any children

No one in the area seems to know how the money for the Tshimbupfe Drop-in Centre for destitute children was used

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News | 19 August 2021

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R350-a-month Covid grant is too low, say speakers at Women on Farms meeting

“If I could, I would rather work”

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News | 19 August 2021