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Shack demolitions in Philippi

Displaced resident says she can’t keep on paying rent with her child grant money

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Brief | 5 June 2017

Gugulethu clinic gets its mobile police station

Police deputy minister delivers on promise

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Brief | 5 June 2017

Eastern Cape community gets water after protests

Kei Road residents agree to liaise with government

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Brief | 1 June 2017

Shack fire claims three lives

Two people narrowly escape Nyanga backyard blaze

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Brief | 30 May 2017

People relieve themselves in bushes in forgotten part of East London

“Paraffin is very expensive … that is why we steal electricity”

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Brief | 29 May 2017

Protest after health care worker stabbed to death

Deputy police minister promises mobile station outside Gugulethu Community Health Centre at KTC Day Hospital

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Brief | 25 May 2017

City cleans up rubbish dumps at Marikana

After nine months, the City has started to remove piles of garbage at the Philippi East informal settlement

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Brief | 25 May 2017

Summons served on environmental rights lawyers by mining company

Mineral Sand Resources (MSR) is suing attorneys of the Centre for Environmental Rights

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Brief | 24 May 2017

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Brief | 24 May 2017

Masiphumelele residents reject City mediators

They want to select their own person, and they also want a plan for the development of the township to be made public before negotiations over contested issues begin

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Brief | 19 May 2017

Living with an open sewer for 15 years

Residents in East London say election promises were made to fix the problem

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Brief | 17 May 2017

One killed and over 20 homes destroyed in Samora Machel

“When I heard noise from neighbours it was too late to collect anything except my ID”

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Brief | 15 May 2017

Blocked toilets make life unbearable for Masiphumelele wetlands residents

“We want to see this fixed permanently so we can stay in a clean space where the children can play and people can access sanitation”

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Brief | 12 May 2017

Port Elizabeth parents shut down school in anger at education department

With a teacher-learner ratio of over 40 to 1, they accuse government of failing to listen to their requests for three additional teachers

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Brief | 12 May 2017

Pietermaritzburg police organise march against crime

But some residents sceptical of cops

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Brief | 12 May 2017

Port St Johns murder: call for better psychiatric assessment of prisoners

Former prisoner admits to killing four-year-old nephew

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Brief | 11 May 2017