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Inside Pollsmoor’s special Baby Mother Unit

“I wouldn’t mind going back there" - former inmate

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Feature | 10 October 2016

GroundUp goes shelter-hopping in Durban

Some charge R20 for a night in a filthy building

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Feature | 4 October 2016

District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list

Five decades after it was declared whites only, Shariefa Davids misses her old neighbourhood

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Feature | 23 September 2016

Leticha and the debt trap

A case study of how vulnerable people are preyed upon

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Feature | 15 September 2016

The night run: how Zimbabwean traders are dodging suffocating import restrictions

"We are poor. We will go naked if we are prevented from importing cheap garments for resale."

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Feature | 25 August 2016

Meet David Lee Pearson, the dodgy businessman behind Wescape

He has left behind a string of unpaid "loans"

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Feature | 24 August 2016

Lethal toll of informal gold mining

While deaths on formal mines have come down, zama-zama fatalities have gone up

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Feature | 17 August 2016

Should you be prosecuted for exposing someone to HIV?

Many have been found guilty despite lack of scientific evidence

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Feature | 11 August 2016

Port Elizabeth’s ward 26: an ANC divided

While the ruling party is unlikely to lose this ward on Wednesday, it showcases its problems in the city

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Feature | 30 July 2016

A look at Port Elizabeth’s most closely contested ward

Ward 38's community lives on the edge of a wasteland

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Feature | 25 July 2016

A day in the visitors’ queue at Pollsmoor

Eight hour wait to see inmates at the prison

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Feature | 20 July 2016

Ward 74: Beautiful valley with an ugly problem

A shortage of housing remains the hot-button issue in Hout Bay

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Feature | 18 July 2016

The difficult exit from the gang

Each step in makes it harder to get out

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Feature | 5 July 2016

Rough diamonds: De Beers responds

Life, not money, was our concern, says spokesman about company's rescue effort at Bontekoe

An interview with Tom Tweedy of De Beers

Feature | 30 June 2016

Rough diamonds - part four: Illicit digging carries on

Miners are excavating new tunnels

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Feature | 30 June 2016

Rough diamonds - part three: “If we could work legally, we wouldn’t break the law”

Department of Mineral Resources criticised for its handling of mining disaster

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Feature | 29 June 2016