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UN report warns of disastrous consequences of antibiotic resistance

This follows an alarming South African study which shows that doctors and nurses are prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily

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News | 30 April 2019

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Deadline for families facing eviction from Noordhoek land

Landowner Judy Sole offered each family R35,000

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News | 30 April 2019

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Minister makes big promises about R280-million Baartman centre

Nathi Mthethwa says heritage site will turn tiny Hankey into “another Gauteng”

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News | 29 April 2019

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Faeces spread in president’s path

Protests in Makhanda ahead of Ramaphosa’s Freedom Day rally

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News | 29 April 2019

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Declare disaster zone, pleads flood victim in Port St Johns informal settlement

“The municipality promised us RDP houses in a safe place, but more than five years later we’re in the same situation”

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News | 29 April 2019

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Elevators at City of JHB retirement home have not worked for months

Some disabled residents are unable to leave the floor they live on

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News | 27 April 2019

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Protesters burn Khayelitsha health facility

“The clinic helps us with tests for chronic diseases. Now we will have to travel long distances to other areas to get treatment”

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News | 26 April 2019

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Old people and babies spend night outside in queue for SASSA services

“If you do not sleep here, you will not get assisted”

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News | 26 April 2019

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Red Ants demolish 110 shacks in Dunoon

About 500 land occupiers lose their homes

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News | 25 April 2019