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Operation Show Your Receipt: “They came in and took our mealie meal and oil”

Activists question legality of confiscating food from poor households

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News | 29 July 2021

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Farm dwellers and emerging farmers clash with each other and government over land

Families that have resided on Bapsfontein farm for many decades fear eviction

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News | 29 July 2021

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The Human Rights Commission is wrong: vaccines are not always optional

The Commission is undermining the state’s vaccine programme

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Opinion | 29 July 2021

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Homeless people and traders in Nelson Mandela Bay take over cleaning public toilets

They charge the public R2 to use the toilets

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Brief | 29 July 2021

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New social housing development launched in Cape Town

Latest phase of Bothasig Gardens will provide 314 homes to lower income families

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News | 28 July 2021

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Battle to stop 22km long mine on Wild Coast

Xolobeni community deeply divided

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Feature | 28 July 2021

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R350 Covid grant is too little and excludes too many, research report finds

Grant is used up on basic services that should be free

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News | 28 July 2021

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Yes, we can afford a Universal Basic Income Guarantee

It just needs political will

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Opinion | 28 July 2021

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The Lottery, the law firm and the minister: more questions than answers

We have uncovered hundreds of millions of rands worth of corruption and maladministration over three years, but no one has been brought to justice

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GroundView | 27 July 2021

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Law graduates to challenge legal profession’s discrimination against immigrants

Zimbabwean-born and fully South African qualified advocate works as a waiter because of legal profession’s rules

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Law | 27 July 2021

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The Covid grant should be R585, so everyone can afford to eat

Black Sash launches a report into the implementation and impact of the Covid-19 SRD Grant

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Opinion | 27 July 2021

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Return to school spoiled by Cape Town taxi war

Western Cape MEC suspends Bellville – Paarl taxi route for two months

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News | 26 July 2021

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Winters are the worst nightmare for us, says homeless man in Springs

Last week temperatures dropped to minus 7ÂşC

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News | 26 July 2021

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Covid-19: Unions should push harder for teachers to get vaccinated

It’s almost never a reasonable choice to not get vaccinated

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GroundView | 26 July 2021

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Lottery COO back at work after 17-month “leave of absence”

Audit firm SkX has so far been paid R9.65 million to investigate alleged Lottery corruption

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News | 26 July 2021

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Gauteng informal traders feel the aftermath of July unrest

“We are not making money and our fridges at home are empty. We can’t carry on like this,” says Kwa Mai Mai Market food seller

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News | 26 July 2021

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