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MP tries to exclude public from meeting on appointment of new Lottery chair

Scandal-ridden Alfred Nevhutanda is unlikely to be replaced by November deadline

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News | 26 October 2020

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Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered

Violence on border of iMfolozi-Hluhluwe Game Park linked to fears of mass retrenchments

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News | 23 October 2020

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These domestic workers lost their jobs during lockdown. Now they have to beg on the streets with their babies

When a car stops, all the women compete to get there first

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News | 23 October 2020

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Butterworth water protests politically motivated says municipality

“Officials live in East London 
 When they take a bath they spend an hour because they have enough water” responds protester

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News | 23 October 2020

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No housing on Rondebosch Golf Club for now

City says the land is unsuitable, but Ndifuna Ukwazi says the decision is “blindingly shortsighted”

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News | 22 October 2020

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After years of missing deadlines government wants 18 more months to solve foster grant crisis

Tens of thousands of children yet again at risk of losing their grants

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News | 22 October 2020

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Snaking queue for Covid grants in Soweto

“I heard the government extended the grant for three months, but I am still waiting for my first payment to be approved”

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News | 22 October 2020

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Housing protest after Gauteng “delivers nothing” on 2018 promise

Protesters want to know what happened to the Rapid Land Release Program

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News | 22 October 2020

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92 cases struck from court roll in three months due to police inefficiency

“Dockets are disappearing in different police stations. Cases are just disappearing off the roll”

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News | 22 October 2020

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MPs give Home Affairs and City a tongue lashing over refugee camps

Parliament’s portfolio committee on Home Affairs to conduct oversight visit

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News | 21 October 2020

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Port Elizabeth family lose “breadwinner” in taxi shooting

The incident sparked violence in the communities of Booysens Park and Marikana

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News | 21 October 2020

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“Massive” oil spill in Umbilo River

Environmental group says pipeline was meant to have been shut down in 2008

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News | 21 October 2020

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SASSA determined to get back “every cent” owed by Cash Paymaster Services

CPS owes SASSA R1.5 billion, says spokesperson

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News | 20 October 2020

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Shack dwellers want a share of toilet building tender

“Nothing about shack dwellers without involving shack dwellers” says member of new business forum

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News | 20 October 2020

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Abahlali leads hundreds in march against corruption in Durban

“The thieves must be called to justice” says ABM deputy president

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News | 20 October 2020

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Land occupiers tear down ‘unoccupied’ shacks in overcrowded township

Community leader says the group will have to answer for their actions at an upcoming mass meeting

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News | 19 October 2020