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Western Cape town “held to ransom” by cable theft syndicate

Repeated extended blackouts as electricity poles are cut down and cables stolen

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News | 10 October 2024

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How bureaucracy prevents people from getting houses

Supply isn’t coming close to meeting the demand for state-subsidised housing

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News | 10 October 2024

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Vhutshilo Mountain School offers lifeline to AIDS orphans

Limpopo school has been going strong for nearly 20 years

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News | 10 October 2024

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Relocation of Langa rail line occupiers delayed by regulations

Rezoning application to move people living next to the Central Line has taken more than a year

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News | 9 October 2024

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Women dig their own pipeline after years of frustration with eThekwini water supply

Many families in Matikwe north of Durban were left out when pipes were installed

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News | 9 October 2024

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In this village some people say they drink just one cup of water a day

Water infrastructure was installed in uMsinga in KwaZulu-Natal years ago but has never worked

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News | 9 October 2024

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Africa Oil Week: Mantashe slams “foreign-funded” activists

Protests held against fossil-fuel industry in Cape Town and Johannesburg

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News | 8 October 2024

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Joburg’s water woes are self-inflicted

The temporary shutdown of the supply from Lesotho is not the problem

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News | 8 October 2024

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Unions take to the streets to demand decent work

Hundreds of workers march in Cape Town, Joburg and Durban

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News | 7 October 2024

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Tshwane non-profit social housing company in business rescue

Yeast City Housing is fighting for survival with debt of over R130-million

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News | 7 October 2024

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Thousands in Cape Town and Johannesburg protest against Israel’s year of massacres

Calls for Israel to be isolated, as South Africa was during apartheid

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News | 5 October 2024

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After six weeks UIF online system still down

COSATU has called on the labour minister to intervene

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News | 4 October 2024

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Minister responds to attack on the Lottery

And NLC Board Chairperson Barney Pityana explains why the Lottery returned R300-million to Treasury

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News | 4 October 2024

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Many Cape Town stations are closed to wheelchair users

And the “People’s Train” is inaccessible to many people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Rooigevaar in Saldanha: residents say red dust from Transnet’s ore terminal is staining their homes and even their dogs

But Transnet says the dust falls below legal limits

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News | 4 October 2024