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Elections 2021: Witzenberg a ā€˜model municipality’ tarnished by poor waste management and unemployment

Budget choices in Ceres favouring the administrative centre over neighbouring towns littered with potholes and sewage

Text and Photos by Steve Kretzmann

News | 30 June 2021

Waiter loses job a second time because of the pandemic

Restaurant staff left without any income as SA goes back to Level 4

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News | 29 June 2021

Circumcision schools say new lockdown does not apply to them

Traditional school leaders say they were not consulted and they will only stop if the president explicitly says they must

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News | 28 June 2021

Children’s Institute urges Parliament to increase Child Support Grant by R10

ā€œIt is untenable that the poorest and most vulnerable children should have to foot the bill for budget reallocationsā€ says Katharine Hall

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News | 28 June 2021

Charlotte Maxeke partly reopened but only for cancer outpatients

Oncology unit is the first department to open since the hospital closed down after a fire in April.

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News | 28 June 2021

Triangle Project concerned by delayed hate crimes bill

Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill stalled since 2018

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News | 28 June 2021

SACP picket in Western Cape calls for inquiry into ā€œthe rot within the policeā€

The party says the public have lost all confidence and trust in the police

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News | 25 June 2021

Anger over exclusion of ECD centres from teacher vaccinations

Early childhood development centre owners say they are ā€œthe forgotten sectorā€

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News | 25 June 2021

Gauteng families huddle around fire at night without food or sufficient shelter

Ekurhuleni spokesperson says they were evicted because their occupation was illegal but admits housing backlog was ā€œnot being eradicated at the pace the homeless community would like to seeā€

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News | 25 June 2021

Gauteng sewage has shown high rates of Covid-19 for three weeks

Other hotspots are Gqeberha and Cape Town

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News | 24 June 2021

Cancer patients say they are struggling to access treatment since Charlotte Maxeke fire

Oncology outpatients try their luck at Chris Hani Baragwanath

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News | 24 June 2021

ā€œWe don’t have anywhere else to goā€ says Johannesburg occupier

Eviction case pending against Rosettenville families while City asked to provide emergency accommodation

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News | 23 June 2021

ā€œI grabbed my son and a suitcase packed with clothesā€ says fire victim describing a chaotic scene

More than 50 Capetonians have been left in the rain with nowhere to sleep tonight

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News | 22 June 2021

20 years later government still ā€œdiscussingā€ Basic Income Grant

Even as the push for a comprehensive grant gathers pace, civil society organisations doubt the political will is there

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News | 22 June 2021

Commuters have deserted Metrorail

Another year at best before Cape Town Central line resumes service to Khayelitsha

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News | 21 June 2021

Hundreds making use of SASSA’s new online booking portal for disability grants

But activists remain sceptical on whether it will alleviate the overburdened process for all vulnerable beneficiaries

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News | 21 June 2021