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Progress at last on Woodstock Hospital occupation?

After seven years the City of Cape Town and the occupiers appear to be finding common ground but difficulties lie ahead

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News | 26 September 2024

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One-armed man has to build his own house

Cofimvaba villager Bongani Mgqebisa has given up waiting for an RDP house

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News | 26 September 2024

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Eight years without running water in eThekwini

Water trucks come to villages on the municipality’s rural outskirts twice a month

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News | 26 September 2024

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Municipality demands contractor pay for delays to Limpopo stadium

Construction started in August 2023 and nearly half the work has still not been done

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News | 26 September 2024

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Welfare organisations unpaid for six months by Gauteng government

This is despite having signed agreements with the provincial Department of Social Development

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News | 25 September 2024

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Press Ombudsman orders TimesLIVE to give correct account of facts

Complaint lodged by GroundUp partially upheld

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Law | 25 September 2024

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Villagers have had no tap water for 15 years, but they live 3km from a dam

The Maluti-a-Phofung municipality is intermittently supplying Jwala-Boholo and Qoqolosing villages with water trucks

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Brief | 25 September 2024

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Strand residents worried about ‘out of hand’ illegal dumping

City says it currently manages about 2.1-million tonnes of waste annually across the metro

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News | 25 September 2024

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Pretoria township devastated by fire

800 homes destroyed

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News | 23 September 2024

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Visually impaired recyclers help the planet

Activists with disabilities are raising awareness about climate change

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Photo Essay | 23 September 2024

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Using carbon dating to stop elephant and rhino poaching

But even a controlled ivory trade may send the wrong message

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Science | 23 September 2024

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State of police college shocks Parliamentary committee

Allegations of corruption, criminality, and dilapidated facilities greet the Portfolio Committee on Police

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News | 20 September 2024

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Cape Town lawyer accused of racially motivated attack takes the stand

Gary Trappler says he’s a “nosy neighbour”, not a tyre slasher

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Brief | 20 September 2024

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Limpopo man digs well so his village doesn’t have to share water with animals

Vhembe District Municipality installed a new pump last week, and promised to come repair the broken boreholes in Tshifudi Tshikombele village

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News | 20 September 2024

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It’s a dangerous job, but we have to do it, says neighbourhood crime fighter

The City of Cape Town Neighbourhood Watch Support Programme has just expanded its training programme

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News | 20 September 2024

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New frog species found in Cederberg

Meet Cacosternum cederbergense, the Cederberg Dainty Frog

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Science | 20 September 2024

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