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Correcting social grant deductions is “expensive” and “inefficient”

Beneficiaries struggle to get back money taken in fraudulent debits to their accounts

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News | 23 April 2018

Angry residents surround ANC regional leadership in Pietermaritzburg city hall

Protests against alleged corruption in municipality

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News | 23 April 2018

SASSA’s disastrous disaster management

Residents were left without blankets and food after a fire in Wallacedene in February despite the City of Cape Town having notified SASSA officials

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News | 20 April 2018

Study urges action to save Philippi’s farms

MEC Alan Winde commits to implementing recommendations

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News | 20 April 2018

Hope for Maynard Street residents living in limbo

Councillor meets City tenants

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News | 20 April 2018

Uitenhage gogo feeds 100 people daily

Sheila Isaacs offers free meals to those in need

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News | 20 April 2018

Commuters battle to get to work as bus strike starts

“It’s busy today. I will be able to pay my monthly cellphone bill,” says taxi driver.

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News | 18 April 2018

In Masiphumelele’s wetlands, everyone dreads the winter

Shackdwellers fear they’ll be sidelined by City housing plans

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News | 18 April 2018

Trapped in Bholobholo without a toilet for 10 years

City says sanitation and water taps will be installed in May

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News | 18 April 2018

Reblocking unsettles Tembisa residents

Some community members says they were not aware of the hardship it would involve

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News | 18 April 2018

Police fire rubber bullets at Pietermaritzburg students

Offices set alight, tyres slashed, eight students injured according to SRC

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News | 17 April 2018

Violence erupts in Vrygrond after shack demolitions

Ward councillor says City is awaiting outcome of a court case over the vacant land

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News | 17 April 2018

City halted housing project because of violence

“No more fight left” says 62-year-old woman after waiting 28 years for a house

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News | 17 April 2018

Pietermaritzburg college campuses shut down

Students evicted after NSFAS fails to pay accommodation fees

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News | 16 April 2018

Khayelitsha land occupiers describe their desperation

About 230 out of an initial 500 people remain, some having had their shacks demolished three times, and yet new land occupiers keep arriving

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News | 16 April 2018