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We have to buy water for R300 a month, say families in Mpumalanga villages

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For years, subsidies have been withheld from poorest Eastern Cape schools

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New National Lotteries Commission Board appointed

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Popular TV show fined for domestic violence episode

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Judicial Conduct Committee split over action against two judges

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Crackdown on judges for late judgments

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News | 28 April 2023

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Makhanda literacy project shows dramatic results

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Refugees evicted from UNHCR offices find shelter in an old school

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Celebrating Langa through its artists

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Panashe, four months old, lives in a ditch with his mother

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Freedom Day in Philippi: gunshots, robberies and piles of rubbish

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