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ITHUBA campaign raises troubling questions for Twitter

How did a disguised advertising campaign trend to number one in South Africa? And how often does this happen?

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News | 25 August 2022

Wednesday of discontent: workers picket around the country

Demands range from cheaper taxi fares to a Basic Income Grant

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News | 24 August 2022

135 days without water: KZN community at breaking point

Municipal water has not been restored to Tongaat’s 40,000 residents since the April floods

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News | 24 August 2022

Nurses at Free State clinic can’t treat patients when it rains

The small, dilapidated clinic serves residents of Intabazwe, near Harrismith - but it is overwhelmed and under-stocked

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News | 24 August 2022

Babita Deokaran’s family demands justice for slain public servant

Memorial service held for whistleblower, murdered for exposing corruption in the health system

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News | 24 August 2022

Teenager electrocuted in Gqeberha river

This was the second electrocution in the Chatty River in August

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News | 23 August 2022

Diepsloot community desperate for electricity to reduce crime

About 600 shacks in Extension 1 have been without electricity for years

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News | 22 August 2022

Decades into democracy Pietermaritzburg can’t blame ageing infrastructure for water woes, says SAHRC

Hearings into the province’s water crisis concluded on Friday

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News | 22 August 2022

Iconic women’s housing project of the 1990s, today awash in sewage

Residents of Victoria Mxenge Housing Development have taken the City of Cape Town to the Ombudsman after three years of overflowing sewers

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News | 22 August 2022

Prospects and pessimism at jobs roadshow

Bitou municipality and national departments and agencies presented opportunities to young people. Some attendees welcomed it, but others remained doubtful.

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News | 21 August 2022

Uber, Bolt drivers strike for two days

Drivers want more money and an end to the freeze on new licences

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News | 18 August 2022

The President came, the President went, and nothing changed

15 months after the Harrismith N3 protests, the people of Intabazwe say they remain forgotten

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News | 18 August 2022

Families forcibly removed from Maitland 80 years ago still can’t use their land

Ndabeni Communal Property Trust concluded a settlement agreement for the 54.8-hectares

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News | 18 August 2022

Pupils at this school have to study outside

Parents built and rebuilt Port St Johns school themselves

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News | 17 August 2022

People queue all night to get their chronic medication

A second clinic is desperately needed in Motherwell, says community leader

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News | 17 August 2022