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Metrorail shack dwellers moved, but to a place without toilets or water

First families moved off Central Line railway tracks

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News | 8 December 2023

Male murder rate is a national health priority, say researchers

Medical Research Council study has looked at why 87% of people murdered in South Africa are men

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News | 8 December 2023

Australian company to start seismic survey off West Coast in January

Environmental report acknowledges that seismic blasts, which are much louder than gunshots, can kill fish particularly those with swim bladders

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News | 7 December 2023

The informal brick makers of Dordrecht

“We are only working to put food on the table, nothing else” says Tinashe Mandobe who has made bricks in the small Eastern Cape town since 2004

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News | 7 December 2023

South Africa needs to spend an extra R535-billion a year to meet climate goals

Climate investments need to jump from R131-million a year, Presidential Climate Commission says

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News | 6 December 2023

From local theatre to Netflix film: young Philippi actor hopes to inspire township youth

Bonani Ngamlane auditioned in his tiny shack for Netflix’s latest South African film The Queenstown Kings

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News | 6 December 2023

“Xenophobic” Makhubela should not be part of Joburg fire inquiry, say activists

Picket outside Commission of Inquiry into Albert Street fire

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News | 5 December 2023

Transgender woman who says she was raped in police custody has waited four years for justice

High Court judge critical of the Minister of Police’s “lackadaisical approach” to dealing with the matter

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News | 5 December 2023

Trains to return to Stellenbosch by year end, says Metrorail

Residents struggling to pay for alternative transport look forward to the return of rail services

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News | 5 December 2023