Traders vs Transnet: court case has consequences for informal businesses

Mogwase’s informal traders argue that closing their businesses will make them dependent on the state

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Law | 19 March 2018

UCT scientists convince City to drill cautiously into aquifer

Environmental group will monitor borehole drilling into Table Mountain Group Aquifer

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News | 19 March 2018

Women of Glebelands hostel devastated by violence

Part one of a series on political violence and the frustrated search for justice in KwaZulu-Natal

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Feature | 19 March 2018

PE officials and residents debate land occupations

Municipality encourages people to register on housing database but backyarders say the wait is too long

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News | 16 March 2018

PRASA lawyers try to stop R59 million payment to Siyaya

Head of legal services claims board chairperson acted without authority

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News | 16 March 2018

2.5 million people at risk of not receiving social grants on time

Provincial heads at the South African Social Security Agency briefed Parliament on contingency plans

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Parliament | 16 March 2018

Education department argues it’s not responsible for shoddy schools

Judgment reserved in case on norms and standards in Bhisho High Court

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Law | 16 March 2018

Don’t take us away from our customers, traders ask Mayor Athol Trollip

Informal vendors in Port Elizabeth relocated to site without customers, water, electricity or toilets

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News | 15 March 2018

Call for action against abusive churches

Speak the Truth marches in Braamfontein

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News | 15 March 2018

Equal Education in court against Motshekga over broken schools

Education department says it is dependent on other parts of government to fix schools

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News | 15 March 2018

Will there be more rain this winter?

The sooner we know the answer, the sooner we can prepare for summer 2019

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Science | 15 March 2018

I had to repeat grade ten because of Metrorail

Learners in Cape Town schools badly affected by collapsing train service

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News | 15 March 2018

Informal gold miners raise money to bury their friend

More Ngondi was killed by mine security

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Brief | 15 March 2018

Scores left homeless after demolitions in Makhaza

Spate of land occupations in Cape Town continues

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Brief | 14 March 2018

Are resident associations being captured by the property industry?

Sea Point shows how developers use these organisations to advance their own interests

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Analysis | 14 March 2018

Residents want sewerage system because pit toilets are full

Ward councillor says there will be sewers by 2019 latest

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Brief | 14 March 2018