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Overcrowding leads to Ekurhuleni land occupation

New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode

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News | 16 May 2018

State of the art library to open in Dunoon

Libraries in poor communities have to be built from scratch

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News | 16 May 2018

Thousands march in solidarity with Palestine

“I stand here as a Jewish South African to say to Israel: ‘Enough! Enough shooting unarmed protesters!’”

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News | 15 May 2018

East London has no budget to clean toilets, says official

Duncan Village communal toilets in terrible state

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News | 15 May 2018

Ramaphosa visits home of gunned-down corruption-fighting councillor

ANC comrades accuse each other of KZN political murders

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News | 15 May 2018

“This place, honestly, has saved my life”

Shelters to get boost from City of Cape Town for winter

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News | 14 May 2018

Cheese factory has to secure its property or risk losing it

EbuMnandini residents interdicted from occupying Cremona land until September

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News | 12 May 2018

Court orders PRASA to release audio recordings

Tapes will show whether board took decision to disband Legal Panel

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News | 11 May 2018

Cape Town councillor promises new social housing by 2019

Activists vow to continue occupying Helen Bowden Nursing Home and Woodstock Hospital

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News | 11 May 2018

No money to improve school says KZN education department

Protests enter third week at Pietermaritzburg high school

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News | 11 May 2018

ARTICLE RETRACTED: R22 million Red Location Museum slowly being stripped nail by nail

This article plagiarised from another article published in 2016. This violates GroundUp’s principles. We have therefore retracted it.

News | 11 May 2018

Miners protest for better safety following Sibanye Stillwater deaths

Unions say there have been 33 fatalities so far in 2018

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News | 11 May 2018

When losing your job means losing your home

Former farm worker battles to keep house on Ceres farm but farmer says there is a shortage of homes for current workers

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News | 10 May 2018

Woman had to buy fake permit to get child into school

No place at school without a study permit, but no study permit without a place in school, complain Zimbabwean parents

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News | 10 May 2018

Refugee organisations take Home Affairs to court for defying judges

More than a month after the deadline, still no fully functioning refugee centre in Cape Town

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News | 10 May 2018

City explains new water tariffs

Higher fixed monthly charge will help pay for new sources of water for Cape Town

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News | 10 May 2018