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Loadshedding is not over in Cape Town’s deep south

Unplanned power outages plague residents and small businesses near Cape Point

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News | 13 September 2024

Occupiers evicted from Alex social housing containers

Mayco member says removal had to take place to make way for rightful beneficiaries. But it has taken the City of Johannesburg years to place people in these containers.

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News | 12 September 2024

SASSA underspent R4-billion on SRD grants, says Auditor General

Members of Parliament criticise the agency for R316-million in overpayments

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News | 12 September 2024

Villagers live next to a platinum mine, but have no jobs

Residents of Limpopo’s Barok Ba Nkwana and Atok villages demand government speak to the mine on their behalf

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News | 12 September 2024

Limpopo teacher scammed out of her savings

Thebe Investment Corporation warns against fraudsters using its name

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News | 12 September 2024

PRASA appeals against court instruction to return material belonging to land occupiers

Last week, the Western Cape gave PRASA 24 hours to return the group’s belongings or build them temporary housing

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News | 11 September 2024

Government stepped in at eleventh hour to save basketball tournament

The tournament, which started later than scheduled, is underway in Pretoria and ends on Saturday

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News | 11 September 2024

Pensioners have to pay people to fetch drinking water from streams

Taps in this municipality have been dry for years

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News | 11 September 2024

City of Cape Town pushes for plan from PRASA to manage commuter rail

Legal correspondence over finalisation of rail agreement exchanged

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News | 10 September 2024

Health department misses another deadline to provide nurses with uniforms

The department has committed to paying nurses a once-off allowance by the end of November

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News | 10 September 2024

Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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News | 9 September 2024

At least 116 children died from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in one year

Conference on hunger hears there’s more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger.

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News | 9 September 2024

Premier Group goes to court to end Mister Sweet strike

Strike at Germiston factory enters fourth week

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News | 9 September 2024

Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

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News | 9 September 2024

Activists organise to oppose teacher retrenchments

Over 2,400 posts to be lost by 1 January

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News | 7 September 2024

Mike Ngulube’s desperate search for his baby’s body

A year after the Marshalltown fire which killed Memory and her mother Joyce, the child’s body has not been returned to her father

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News | 6 September 2024