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“Each time we try to get comfortable, the police come to demolish our home”

Families living in Lindokuhle Mnguni informal settlement in Johannesburg say they’re being harassed by police and AmaPanyaza

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News | 11 June 2024

Money starts flowing at last to Gauteng care organisations

The Department of Social Development has been scrambling to comply with a court order

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News | 11 June 2024

Radiation therapy graduates unplaced for six months by health department

Graduates are required by law to complete the Internship and Community Service Programme in order to practise

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News | 10 June 2024

These Inanda families have to walk to a primary school to use the toilet

Victims of 2022 floods are still living in a “transit camp”

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News | 10 June 2024

After five years only 26 state houses built in Inanda

Families relocated to make way for housing project have been living in a poorly serviced transit camp

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News | 7 June 2024

Children’s book on Palestine occupation pulled from Exclusive Books’ shelves

“It is sad when a book like this gets pulled from the biggest retailer in the country”

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News | 6 June 2024

Gauteng government funds new drug rehab while defunding existing ones

Clinix Foundation was approved for R11-million in funding in just three weeks

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News | 6 June 2024

Further delay in Thabo Bester trial

Bester complains that his rights to a fair trial are being infringed

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News | 5 June 2024

Almost half of state-funded drug rehab beds in Gauteng under threat

Organisations are “under investigation” but have not been told why

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News | 5 June 2024

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