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Union rivalry disrupts teaching at KZN school

Conflict between NATU and SADTU has been ongoing at Emzamweni High

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News | 7 February 2020

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State dental clinic lacks anaesthetics

Gugulethu Community Dental Clinic only treating 40 people a day

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News | 7 February 2020

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Residents tell Eastern Cape Premier they have lost all faith in their municipality

Various attempts to fix Amahlathi have failed

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News | 7 February 2020

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JP Smith claims success for railway security unit but cable theft goes on

City says it needs to take control of Metrorail in Cape Town, while #UniteBehind calls for commuter-centred safety plan

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News | 7 February 2020

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Violent protests after taps run dry in Ntuzuma

Municipality says load shedding is partly to blame for water crisis

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News | 6 February 2020

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Families accuse City of failing to approve shack extensions

Bonnytoun residents say they are cramped because of red tape

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News | 6 February 2020

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By-elections briefly disrupted in Port Elizabeth

Protesters demand electrification of informal settlements

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News | 5 February 2020

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Debt collecting firm Flemix fined for dodgy practice

This is a significant step in reforming micro-lending industry, says law clinic attorney

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News | 5 February 2020

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Pressure grows for Parliament to “get to the bottom” of accusations against Lottery

“The NLC’s game plan is to bully and threaten anyone who looks to make allegations or substantiate allegations against it,” says MP

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News | 5 February 2020

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Mthatha school has been waiting 18 months for pit toilets

Learners use an open field, teachers go to neighbouring houses

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News | 5 February 2020

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UWC students protest over lack of accommodation

SRC says there will be no classes until situation is resolved

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News | 4 February 2020

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Parents refuse to let children go to school in “moving coffin”

“Go to hell with this skorokoro bus” Port Elizabeth parents tell driver

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News | 4 February 2020

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Schools threaten to shut down if government doesn’t build a new one

“Officials promised us heaven and earth”

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News | 4 February 2020

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Students up in arms and employees down tools at UKZN

HIV support centre torched during protests

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News | 4 February 2020

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Cape Town garden changes lives for homeless people

“You have to have an ID, otherwise it is as if you don’t exist”

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News | 3 February 2020

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Sick Durban river spoils popular recreational lagoon

Civil action could address pollution in Mdloti river

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News | 3 February 2020