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Elderly couple abandoned in mud house with grandchildren

Councillor’s promises came to nothing

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News | 21 February 2018

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Endumeni housing judgment is a warning to municipalities

Court finds allocation process irregular and corrupt

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Law | 13 February 2018

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Apartheid survives beyond the grave

Upington’s neglected cemeteries reflect the divisions of the past

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News | 12 February 2018

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Generations of Shackville residents abandoned by government

“Even my toilet is better than the house I’m living in”

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News | 7 February 2018

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PRASA board fails to pitch up for parliamentary meeting

Committee summons board to come on 13 February

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News | 6 February 2018

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Pietermaritzburg community waiting since 2013 for guard rails on deadly road

Ward councillor says he has “sent a letter” and can do nothing more

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News | 5 February 2018

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Urban planning: who leads the conversation?

Citizens’ experience must be taken into account, say experts

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News | 5 February 2018

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City of Cape Town destroys new shacks on Khayelitsha land

Residents say they cleaned up an illegal dump to build their shacks

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News | 31 January 2018

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Seven years on, Zuma’s promise of free sanitary pads has not been kept

But the Department of Women has a plan

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News | 18 January 2018

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Sewage spill spoils children’s holidays

PE residents have been complaining to the municipality for months

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News | 9 January 2018

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R12 million flower festival for Parys

Controversy over how the benefits will be spread

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News | 24 November 2017

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Trollip offers R25,000 reward to catch electricity and water saboteurs

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says supply to poor areas is being sabotaged on weekends

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Brief | 22 November 2017

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Butterworth’s R14-million public pool nears completion after nine years

But there is no water to fill it

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News | 21 November 2017

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Neighbours to the rescue as health system fails epileptic man

58-year-old Pietermaritzburg resident Dumisani Zuma says he’s never seen a Community Health Worker

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News | 30 October 2017

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Province committed to affordable housing

A response to Ndifuna Ukwazi’s Jared Rossouw

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Right to reply | 16 October 2017

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Imbizo backfires on Buffalo City Mayor

Xola Pakati failed to respond to people’s grievances

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Brief | 13 October 2017