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Thabo Bester escape: no reason for bail to be granted, says prosecutor

Lawyers for the accused say they won’t evade trial

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News | 23 May 2023

Government criticised for blaming Covid for the country’s literacy crisis

Department of basic education needs to take responsibility for “devastating” literacy rates, say opposition and civil society

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News | 23 May 2023

Khayelitsha families want asbestos roofing removed

Project to fix houses was halted during Covid

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News | 23 May 2023

Amathole villagers drink from the river while new contractor for water project appointed

Municipality takes over drinking water project meant to have been completed last year

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News | 23 May 2023

Motsoaledi rubbishes Dr Nandipha’s court bid to have her arrest in Tanzania declared “unlawful”

Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person”

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News | 22 May 2023

Having withstood apartheid removals, District Six families fight eviction by new owner

Original District Six cottages now face the threat of developer’s bulldozers

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News | 22 May 2023

UCT chair resigns following governance panel’s recommendations

Report makes several findings against Babalwa Ngonyama, particularly in relation to her treatment of former deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange

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News | 22 May 2023

Thabo Bester escape: Lawyers challenge police officer’s objections to bail

Bail application for five accused continued for a third day

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News | 19 May 2023

Inmate Teboho Molemohi was murdered in Mangaung prison. His mother was never told what happened

Six people were convicted for Teboho’s murder, but no-one told his mother

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News | 19 May 2023