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R1k loan balloons to R13k in two years

Money lender now controls woman’s bank account, wages and children’s grants

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News | 15 February 2017

Masiphumelele residents march to Fish Hoek to demand better living conditions

Protesters call on municipality to provide electricity and sanitation to everyone living in the township’s informal settlement

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News | 14 February 2017

Vice-chancellor threatens to shut down Walter Sisulu University campus

Rob Midgley says agreement must be be reached on Tuesday with SRC

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News | 14 February 2017

City asks court to order national government to compensate land owners

Human Settlements lawyer says that granting the court application by Marikana residents would have “dire and far reaching consequences”

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News | 14 February 2017

Crossroads parents shut down school

“We are fed up .. with the bad condition of the school”

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News | 14 February 2017

US analyst urges clients to sell Net1 shares as concerns mount over social grant payments

CEO hits back at “unbridled slander” from critics

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News | 13 February 2017

Vigilante violence leaves Malawian family homeless

“The police do nothing so the people have decided to mobilise and handle the matter themselves”

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News | 13 February 2017

Maggots in baby’s mouth as uncollected garbage piles up

A dispute over refuse removal services in early December has left the informal settlement of Europe near Nyanga with growing mounds of rubbish

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News | 13 February 2017

Marikana lawyer calls for state to expropriate land

SAPS lawyer says it isn’t possible to arrest the informal settlement’s 60,000 residents

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News | 12 February 2017