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New social grant system hurts the elderly, study finds

Long queues, no toilets: the closure of the old paypoints leaves pensioners in the lurch

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News | 4 October 2019

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Wheelchair user Nonkululeko Dziweni has to wait for two people to take her to the toilet in a mall one kilometre away

Buffalo City mayor hears Mdantsane residents’ complaints

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News | 4 October 2019

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Rats still live in Kanana’s filthy ditches

30-year-old settlement is still a mess

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News | 4 October 2019

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Occupiers of old age home prepare for another night outside

No court rulings yet on their fate

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News | 3 October 2019

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Threat of drought looms over Queenstown

Some residents are already only getting water for an hour a day

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News | 3 October 2019

Residents spend the night outside Arcadia Place in Observatory after being evicted.

Old age home occupiers evicted

Residents spend the night on the street in Observatory

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News | 3 October 2019

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Groote Schuur unveils new cancer machine that can treat 40 patients a day

The hospital treats 3,000 new oncology patients a year

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News | 3 October 2019

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Customer assaults pregnant Shoprite cashier

Video footage shows man hitting eight-months-pregnant Zimkhitha Xhalabile

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News | 2 October 2019

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Uber drivers say they’re being harassed by minibus taxis

Taxi association condemns violence

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News | 2 October 2019

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Elderly motorist doused with petrol in Dunoon taxi protests

Other vehicles also attacked as taxi operators respond to City clampdown

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News | 1 October 2019

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Angolan former refugees face uncertain future

Special permits expire at the end of 2021

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News | 1 October 2019

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KZN woman can’t get an ID because she’s “dead”

Home Affairs insists Noluvu Mathumbu died in 2007

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News | 1 October 2019

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Court grants prisoner permission to use his laptop

Denying laptop infringed Mbalenhle Ntuli’s right to study, says judge

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News | 1 October 2019

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North West housing project halted by angry residents

Residents claim housing allocation process excluded poor people in the community

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News | 30 September 2019

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Two crime hotspots still without permanent police stations

Five years after Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry, recommendation to build new station still not implemented

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News | 27 September 2019

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Nightmare labour for mother in Limpopo hospital

Health department says incident was “truly unacceptable”

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News | 26 September 2019