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Thousands of special needs learners still not placed at schools

Parents of children with disabilities protested in May, demanding that government do more to help their children

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News | 5 June 2024

Stun grenades thrown at farm women outside Parliament

200 women were marching to call for a ban on pesticides

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News | 4 June 2024

Public Protector releases damning report on the handling of gender-based violence complaints

Report says the departments of Justice, Police and Social Development are falling short

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News | 4 June 2024

Bid to save legendary Lovedale Press

The 200-year-old Eastern Cape press is in a shambles, but there is a plan

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News | 4 June 2024

Boksburg families refuse to move to serviced sites

Give us houses, Ekurhuleni municipality told

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News | 4 June 2024

Seven die in floods in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro

Over 1,000 people displaced by flooding on the weekend

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News | 3 June 2024

Durban police brutality case adjourned again

18 officers face trial over death-in-custody of Regan Naidoo in 2018

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News | 1 June 2024

New proposal puts Kruger National Park’s environmental safeguards “at risk”

Experts alarmed by government move to drop statutory requirements for some developments in the park

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News | 31 May 2024

These villagers got taps five years ago … but have never had water

Villages around Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape battle for water

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News | 31 May 2024

Conditions in Greyton settlement worsen as land restitution process drags on

Madiba Park families still in limbo five years after protests

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News | 30 May 2024

Gauteng Department of Social Development misled court on reasons for funding delays

Auditor-General says it did not recommend changes to the funding process

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News | 30 May 2024

Eskom demands Evaton households pay for broken transformer

Residents have to each pay R6,000 over six months, otherwise they won’t be reconnected, says the power utility

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News | 30 May 2024

Gauteng government bungles allocation of billions for non-profit organisations

Funding decisions were centralised supposedly to prevent corruption but it has caused catastrophic delays and mistakes

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News | 28 May 2024

Multi-million-rand drug rehabs under investigation by Gauteng government

Provincial department of social development has stopped funding 750 beds at Life Healthcare’s treatment centres

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News | 28 May 2024

KZN budget cuts hit childcare organisations hard

In 2022/23 Department of Social Development funding for non-profit organisations was R755-million. It has dropped to R695-million.

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News | 28 May 2024

No ID, no vote: Home Affairs fails victims of Cape Town shack fire

Home Affairs says the City of Cape Town must send a list of victims but the City says it’s already done so

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News | 28 May 2024