Brief

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R233-million spent on buses for fleeing immigrants

About 100,000 people have left South Africa since June

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Brief | 25 August 2026

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Parents close Cape Town school for three days because of sewage leak

Education department says it will be fixed by Wednesday

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Brief | 25 August 2026

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Readers’ donations get church band going again

Instruments worth R100,000 were stolen from the Samora Machel band and sold for scrap

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Brief | 25 August 2026

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Sugar workers down tools

Tongaat Hulett workers demand a 13% wage increase

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Brief | 19 August 2026

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Our classrooms “will collapse on us”, says Limpopo learner

Radzambo Secondary School in Matsila village is crumbling, overcrowded and short of teachers

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Brief | 19 August 2026

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Four months of raw sewage on Durban road

Overflowing manholes have forced motorists and taxis to take longer routes

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Brief | 18 August 2026

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Eastern Cape protesters win fight against municipal manager

Dr AB Xuma Local Municipality manager Khathutshelo Mulaudzi faces allegations of mismanagement

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Brief | 18 August 2026

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Sex work bill back in Parliament years later

SWEAT and Asijiki Coalition welcome some progress by government

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Brief | 17 August 2026

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Mfuleni shack dwellers protest outside Premier’s office

Protesters threaten to “shut down the N2” if water and electricity demands ignored

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Brief | 14 August 2026