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Bakkie drivers protest against law banning lifts to learners

They say they’re needed because school transport is a shambles

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News | 19 June 2017

Khayelitsha backyarders clash with police

People describe their desperation for a place to call home

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News | 19 June 2017

Former Aids council head criticises government plan

But Fareed Abdullah says it is not too late to improve it

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News | 17 June 2017

Aids Council responds to corruption allegations

Civil society organisations called “malicious”

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News | 15 June 2017

Sex workers demonstrate during Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech

South African National AIDS Council did not include decriminalising sex work in its HIV strategy plan

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News | 15 June 2017

Thousands left stranded by Johannesburg taxi blockade

Talks between taxi association and SA Taxi Finance Holdings broke down

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News | 15 June 2017

Men at higher risk of not getting HIV under control

In a massive study, about 85% of patients on antiretrovirals had got the virus down to acceptable levels in their blood

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News | 15 June 2017

Eastern Cape woman’s 23 year struggle to correct her ID

Nomboxo Kafile can’t access her old age grant because of the error

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News | 15 June 2017

Refugees struggle to renew papers at Home Affairs

Asylum seekers from Somalia face unexplained delays and shabby treatment at the foreshore office

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News | 15 June 2017

South Africa is making progress against its most deadly disease

Number of new cases is dropping

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News | 14 June 2017

Khayelitsha study offers hope for children with HIV who are failing treatment

Intervention helps kids to adhere to their medication

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News | 14 June 2017

Activists protest against Aids Council

Hard questions in recent months about SANAC’s finances and commitment to holding government accountable remain unanswered

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News | 13 June 2017

Cape Flats cleaners want masks

Management agrees masks are necessary

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News | 13 June 2017

Commuters rebel as Metrorail fails

Power failure brings Cape Town trains to a halt across the city

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News | 13 June 2017

Cape Town gets clinic for sex workers

Facility aims to provide health care to people who are often stigmatised in the state system

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News | 12 June 2017

Police accused of failing in Phoenix

Milnerton Community Policing Forum barred from security meetings

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News | 12 June 2017