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Knysna fire’s wake-up call

Mayor explains the lessons learnt

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News | 22 June 2017

Second week of mass evictions and violent protests in Port Elizabeth

Police conduct 3am raid, arrest 12 and confiscate petrol bombs and tyres

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News | 21 June 2017

Masiphumelele residents question City’s compliance with court interdict

“They asked me if it was my house. I went inside but they knocked it down anyway.”

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News | 21 June 2017

Prisoners across the country demand parole hearings

“Your reluctance to address our legitimate challenges will result in us being not cooperative”

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News | 21 June 2017

“This is not a place for human beings”

Blikkiesdorp was supposed to be temporary, but residents are stuck there indefinitely

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News | 20 June 2017

Khayelitsha land occupiers granted bail

Backyarders from Town Two marched to Lingelethu police station on the weekend demanding release of six people who were arrested

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News | 19 June 2017

14 people live in a one-room shack

Mdantsane woman is trapped by debt

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News | 19 June 2017

Bakkie drivers protest against law banning lifts to learners

They say they’re needed because school transport is a shambles

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News | 19 June 2017

Khayelitsha backyarders clash with police

People describe their desperation for a place to call home

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News | 19 June 2017

Former Aids council head criticises government plan

But Fareed Abdullah says it is not too late to improve it

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News | 17 June 2017

Aids Council responds to corruption allegations

Civil society organisations called “malicious”

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News | 15 June 2017

Sex workers demonstrate during Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech

South African National AIDS Council did not include decriminalising sex work in its HIV strategy plan

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News | 15 June 2017

Thousands left stranded by Johannesburg taxi blockade

Talks between taxi association and SA Taxi Finance Holdings broke down

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News | 15 June 2017

Men at higher risk of not getting HIV under control

In a massive study, about 85% of patients on antiretrovirals had got the virus down to acceptable levels in their blood

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News | 15 June 2017

Eastern Cape woman’s 23 year struggle to correct her ID

Nomboxo Kafile can’t access her old age grant because of the error

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News | 15 June 2017

Refugees struggle to renew papers at Home Affairs

Asylum seekers from Somalia face unexplained delays and shabby treatment at the foreshore office

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News | 15 June 2017