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About 100 students march to NSFAS over funding troubles

“We (SRCs) refuse to remain silent while the dreams and aspirations of the children of the poor and working class are trampled on by an unyielding bureaucracy.”

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News | 24 May 2023

Deadly cholera outbreak was just a matter of time

Drinking water has been dirty for at least three years, the Department of Water and Sanitation’s own tests show

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News | 24 May 2023

Thabo Bester saga: accused want bail so they can care for their children, lawyers argue

A decision in the bail application is expected on Monday

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News | 24 May 2023

University of Venda lectures resume after two-day protest

Management has agreed to address most of the students’ demands

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News | 24 May 2023

One year later and still no judgment in urgent case about access to medicine

Judge Colleen Collis reserved judgment in April 2022 in a matter between Bayer and Clicks

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News | 24 May 2023

Family of man shot by police in Philippi say they waited five hours for an ambulance

Mhlangabezi Skeyi was shot while trying to connect electricity illegaly

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News | 24 May 2023

Thabo Bester escape: no reason for bail to be granted, says prosecutor

Lawyers for the accused say they won’t evade trial

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News | 23 May 2023

Government criticised for blaming Covid for the country’s literacy crisis

Department of basic education needs to take responsibility for “devastating” literacy rates, say opposition and civil society

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News | 23 May 2023

Khayelitsha families want asbestos roofing removed

Project to fix houses was halted during Covid

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News | 23 May 2023

Amathole villagers drink from the river while new contractor for water project appointed

Municipality takes over drinking water project meant to have been completed last year

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News | 23 May 2023

Motsoaledi rubbishes Dr Nandipha’s court bid to have her arrest in Tanzania declared “unlawful”

Thabo Bester finally added to Home Affairs’s data system after three decades as “an unidentifiable person”

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News | 22 May 2023

Having withstood apartheid removals, District Six families fight eviction by new owner

Original District Six cottages now face the threat of developer’s bulldozers

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News | 22 May 2023

UCT chair resigns following governance panel’s recommendations

Report makes several findings against Babalwa Ngonyama, particularly in relation to her treatment of former deputy vice-chancellor Lis Lange

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News | 22 May 2023

Thabo Bester escape: Lawyers challenge police officer’s objections to bail

Bail application for five accused continued for a third day

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News | 19 May 2023

Inmate Teboho Molemohi was murdered in Mangaung prison. His mother was never told what happened

Six people were convicted for Teboho’s murder, but no-one told his mother

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News | 19 May 2023

GroundUp told to remove Lottery article following fake copyright claim

If we don’t remove the article access to our website may be blocked

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News | 19 May 2023