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Only one in four children lives with both parents

Child Gauge report says 65% of children live in poverty

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News | 21 November 2018

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Joburg’s informal traders want better spaces

New association formed to lobby for improved conditions

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News | 21 November 2018

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Inside the Pietermaritzburg mortuary where workers are on a go-slow

GroundUp found corpses piled up and decomposing

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News | 20 November 2018

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10 taps for 1,000 families in Wallacedene

Broken drains, blocked toilets, filthy water in the streets

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News | 20 November 2018

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Abahlali activist claims he was left out of electricity project as punishment

But municipality says project can’t be completed because area is not safe

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News | 20 November 2018

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Herzlia alumni “condemn” punishment of students who protested

Letter of support written for two learners that knelt during the Israeli national anthem

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News | 19 November 2018

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In Johannesburg you have to pay to picket. Activists have had enough

Right2Know leads march against municipality’s protest fees

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News | 17 November 2018

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Over 2,000 schools without toilets, says Equal Education

Organisation marks ten years of struggle

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News | 16 November 2018

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Billions spent on railway contracts. Yet Metrorail collapses

Roy Moodley, who is implicated in a leaked forensic report, says that criminal charges have been laid against GroundUp reporters

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News | 16 November 2018

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Saldanha Bay clinic burnt as community anger boils over

Mayor appoints task team to deal with residents’ demands

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News | 16 November 2018

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Evicted Gympie Street residents face bleak future

“For us to go and stay in another place is like starting all over again”

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News | 16 November 2018

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Shacks burnt, residents arrested, man shot in testicles as Durban targets shackdwellers

Anti-Land-Invasion Unit moves into Cato Crest settlement again

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News | 15 November 2018

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Victory for workers at Dis-Chem

Employees who had been working through a labour broker to become permanent

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News | 15 November 2018

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Army has still not complied with court order, say Marievale families

Families evicted from military base say they are being harassed by soldiers

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News | 14 November 2018

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Families can’t bury loved ones as mortuary workers on go-slow

Relatives shocked by conditions in Pietermaritzburg mortuary

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News | 14 November 2018

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Court stops Bo-Kaap residents from interfering with tower block construction

Association says right to protest has been infringed

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News | 13 November 2018