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Dan Plato addresses refugees camped outside the UNHCR

Over 200 people are sleeping rough in a protest that has no end in sight

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News | 18 October 2019

“Serious health risk” to Marikana residents as garbage piles up

Refuse uncollected since August as City and community dispute who should do the work

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News | 18 October 2019

Lottery COO sues GroundUp for R600k

Summons alleges defamation

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News | 17 October 2019

After fatal stabbing, parents demand end to “bombing ritual” at school

Hershel Fynn was stabbed to death on Tuesday at Eastwood Secondary

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News | 17 October 2019

Construction company has completed only 20% of housing contract

Eastern Cape Human Settlements department blamed for delays

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News | 17 October 2019

Philippi land to be sold is not useful for farming, court told

Judgment reserved in Philippi Horticultural Area case

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News | 17 October 2019

Philippi farmers challenge City on development of agricultural land

Plan to rezone part of Philippi Horticultural Area in court

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News | 16 October 2019

Claiming the wasted opportunities in recycling

Pilot project in Brixton and Auckland Park brings informal waste pickers and residents together to benefit both

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News | 16 October 2019

Occupiers of old age home march to Civic Centre, demand housing

“We need low-cost houses in the CBD … We can’t be going from shack to shack, from stone to stone”

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News | 15 October 2019

Marievale cousins accuse SANDF soldiers of assault

“The soldiers kept kicking them so badly we thought they would kill them”, says witness

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News | 15 October 2019

West Coast town erupts in protests over housing mess-up

The title deeds of several people were withdrawn at the last minute after it was discovered that they did not qualify for the Velddrif housing project

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News | 15 October 2019

Hundreds join refugee protest outside UNHCR

The week-long sit-in by asylum seekers keeps growing

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News | 15 October 2019

Water meters make life harder for poor people, say Ceres residents

Witzenberg Municipality’s installation plan hits opposition

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News | 15 October 2019

Peter Chihoro cycles up to 80km a day fetching wood to make brooms

Zimbabwean has been making brooms for ten years

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News | 15 October 2019

Gordon’s Bay mosque approved after five-year wait

Objectors say further action may follow

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News | 14 October 2019

Taxi associations accused of terrorising immigrants in Pretoria

Men beaten up, accused of drug dealing

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News | 14 October 2019