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Court battle over Zimbabwean children in SA custody

Parents seek urgent interdict to stop deportation

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News | 1 March 2018

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Water restrictions hit Cape Town’s homeless

“We might stay on the streets, but we want to be clean”

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News | 28 February 2018

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Spat over water on Drakenstein farm

Owner reconnects water supply to families after complaints

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News | 27 February 2018

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Proposed Foreshore development compared to apartheid

Suspended City official slammed affordable housing plan

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News | 27 February 2018

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Ramaphosa’s “most important people”

GroundUp spoke to some of the people who sleep on the benches outside Parliament

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News | 27 February 2018

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Foreshore development was one of the reasons for De Lille fallout

Plans pushed through by senior official, claims mayor’s executive director

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News | 26 February 2018

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Corruption Watch says CPS must pay back R317 million

Social grant payment company claims it offered “the best deal SASSA could get”

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News | 23 February 2018

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Eastern Cape’s prickly informal economy

Every year cactuses provides a major income boost for unemployed people who forage and sell the fruit

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News | 23 February 2018

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Zimbabwean parent denied access to her child

Advocate says Department of Social Development has no right to keep the children from being with their families

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News | 22 February 2018

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Overcrowding becoming “the norm” in some Western Cape schools

Provincial education department says it is under severe strain

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News | 22 February 2018

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Foreshore development violates Cape Town’s transport policy, say experts

A losing bid contained many more affordable homes, according to UCT professor

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News | 22 February 2018

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Metrorail should have fixed the Central Line trains, say commuters

Service resumes but train doors and windows still broken

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News | 21 February 2018

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“I am not a pilchard, I refuse to live in a tin”

Woodstock evictees offered relocation to Blikkiesdorp and Wolwerivier

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News | 21 February 2018

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Mining communities slam government’s “elite deal” with Chamber of Mines

Presidency promises they will be included in future negotiations on mining charter

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News | 21 February 2018

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Elderly couple abandoned in mud house with grandchildren

Councillor’s promises came to nothing

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News | 21 February 2018

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“I sent my child to the school to learn, not to be raped”

School security guard in Ngcobo court charged with rape of 15-year-old

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News | 21 February 2018