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Disputes plague breakthrough land claim settlement

Multi-million rand farming operation on 2,425 hectares was expected to be a win-win for former owners and claimants

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News | 5 November 2020

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Mom carries disabled child up six flights of stairs at Addington Hospital

Department says the hospital’s lifts require parts being shipped from overseas

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News | 5 November 2020

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Green Scorpions order City of Cape Town to sort out pollution in the Milnerton Lagoon

Refinery which usually uses effluent from the Potsdam treatment plant switched to drinking water because the effluent is too dirty

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News | 4 November 2020

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Immigrant shop-owners in Durban fear for their lives after attacks

Shops closed after protest by MK veterans

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News | 4 November 2020

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Dunoon mother and six children among families left homeless after blaze

Some people started rebuilding on Tuesday after the homes of 139 people were gutted by a shack fire on Monday

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Brief | 4 November 2020

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Families live in shacks on a railway line after housing project abandoned

Housing project built in Pietermaritzburg without sewerage or planning

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News | 4 November 2020

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RDP houses built 20 years ago still have no water

Residents of Mtititi have to walk up to 2km to fetch water – and when they get there the taps may be dry

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News | 4 November 2020

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Municipal workers threaten to intensify protests

Expanded Public Works Programme workers want permanent jobs

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News | 3 November 2020

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1,000 RDP homes substandard and unfinished

R174-million Eastern Cape building fiasco

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News | 3 November 2020

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Hard life for Fairview’s horse grooms

They want the government to provide services to their informal settlement but it’s on private land. Nevertheless there is hope that a pending land transfer will change things

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News | 3 November 2020

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Is Shamila Batohi winning the battle to fix the NPA?

Results so far have been disappointing but there is hope

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Analysis | 3 November 2020

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Court rejects urgent bid to extend top-up grants

Millions of beneficiaries need the top-up to get by, argued Black Sash

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Law | 2 November 2020

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People pay R50 bribe to post office staff to get their R350 Covid-19 grant

Women cry from hunger and sleep outside waiting to be served

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News | 2 November 2020

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Churchgoers want their money back

Former congregants protest outside the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries in Bellville

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News | 2 November 2020

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Hundreds march for water, electricity and toilets in Khayelitsha

Official says services cannot be provided because some of the land occupations are still before the court

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Brief | 2 November 2020

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NLC boss tells Parliament non-existent R13 million minstrel museum has been completed

She also provides unclear explanations for how tens of millions more were spent

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News | 2 November 2020

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