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Woodstock Hospital occupants and City of Cape Town reach court settlement

Occupants agree to be surveyed by City and legal team

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News | 22 April 2021

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Five taxi operators arrested for setting up roadblocks

SANTACO distances itself from the operators

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News | 22 April 2021

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Litigious Lottery spends millions of rands on lawyers

The National Lotteries Commission has ongoing legal battles against Ebrahim Patel, former employees, and others trying to hold it accountable

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Law | 22 April 2021

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Mamelodi residents have waited five years for electricity connections

Delay blamed on dispute with contractor

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News | 22 April 2021

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The skull of the outlaw hero Koos Sas finally laid to rest

Nearly 100 years after his death, Khoisan leaders ceremonially inter his remains

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Photo Essay | 22 April 2021

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Children play in sewage in Gqeberha

Residents of Motherwell are demanding a permanent solution to the blocked drains

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Brief | 22 April 2021

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Protesters call for CCMA budget cuts to be reversed

Workers coming to the CCMA for help are often told to lodge complaints online

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Brief | 21 April 2021

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UCT fire: students tell how they grabbed textbooks and laptops and fled

“Some people didn’t have shoes on, others ran out in pyjamas”

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News | 21 April 2021

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Activists call for extension of Covid-19 grant

Demands to be given to Department of Social Development on Thursday

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Brief | 21 April 2021

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Coega residents torch buses and trucks, demand jobs

Coega says more than 86% of its workforce is local

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News | 21 April 2021

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PRASA service gets worse even as it hikes ticket prices

Broken stations and filthy, rusted trains on the Kariega – Gqeberha line

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News | 21 April 2021

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The problem with pausing a vaccine rollout

Interrupting a programme early leads to many more infections than one might naively estimate

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Science | 21 April 2021

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Department of Education has failed to release vital software to schools

Government schools are unable to capture marks or produce reports

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News | 21 April 2021

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Occupiers fight eviction from multi-million-rand property in Dunkeld West

Court rules earlier eviction was unlawful

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News | 21 April 2021

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New attempt to force Home Affairs to obey court orders

Asylum seekers have struggled with documents since 2012 when Home Affairs closed its Cape Town refugee office

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News | 20 April 2021

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“Our people don’t live in speed humps,” Kariega residents tell municipality

Meeting told about water leaks, broken houses and dirty streets

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