City blames occupiers for “hampering development” in Soshanguve

About 300 households at Kopanong informal settlement don’t have water and proper electricity

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Brief | 13 July 2022

Video: Building classrooms from plastic waste in Diepsloot

Local NGO turns plastic waste into eco-bricks

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Video | 12 July 2022

Learners picket against government scrapping deadlines to fix schools

Department says learners’ memo will be considered along with other public comments on its proposed amendments

Text and Photos by Magnificent Mndebele

News | 8 July 2022

Video: Making fun books for children in their mother-tongue

“It’s not that children don’t like to read. It’s that they haven’t found the right book yet” says Tina Akuoko of Ethnikids.

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Video | 8 July 2022

Hundreds of organisations swear to defend constitutional democracy

Gauteng meeting of activists condemns “corrupt forces in our society that are opposed to democratic rule”

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News | 5 July 2022

Court action to stop immigrants being denied life-saving healthcare

Two-year-old Zimbabwean boy died after state hospital denied him treatment because his mother had no birth certificate

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Law | 30 June 2022

Marriages under Islamic law given legal status

Women who divorced under Sharia were often left destitute and powerless to enforce maintenance and protect the rights of their children

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Law | 29 June 2022

Dismissed, determined doper loses court bid to be reinstated

Being fired for using cannabis is not unfair discrimination, court rules

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Law | 28 June 2022