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Metrorail comes to grinding halt because of unpaid electricity bill

PRASA owed ESKOM R4 million and was 34 days overdue

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Brief | 28 February 2020

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Tragic landfill conflict fouls Cape Town’s air

Security guard murdered, dumpsite set on fire

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News | 27 February 2020

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Charges against Women on Farms director withdrawn

Colette Solomon was arrested during an anti-eviction protest

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News | 27 February 2020

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Police watchdog commits to major policy change

IPID will prioritise investigating the most serious allegations against officers

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News | 27 February 2020

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“Sisi, what’s the use of voting?” asks Pietermaritzburg resident

Impassable roads, no tap water, no clinic, no community hall and their municipality placed under administration for irregular expenditure

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News | 27 February 2020

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Women make a living picking through scrap metal

“It’s amazing what valuable pieces one can find … Maybe one day l will even find gold”

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News | 27 February 2020

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Budget Day marked by protests and marches

Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights

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News | 26 February 2020

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PRASA fails to provide security plan to court

It was due in December

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Brief | 26 February 2020

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Concourt brings relief to children of foreign parents

If you were born in South Africa to non-citizens you can apply to be a citizen

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Law | 26 February 2020

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Real Jobs Summit proposes ways to tackle unemployment

Cry of the Xcluded campaigners will march to Parliament to mark Budget Day

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Brief | 26 February 2020

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Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement

Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn

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Brief | 26 February 2020

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Paraplegic man dreams of having a house

Lwando Sigaqa lives in a shack in Taiwan informal settlement

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News | 26 February 2020

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Armed men assault clinic workers

Pietermaritzburg clinic closed after attack; patients turned away

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Brief | 25 February 2020

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Furious Uitenhage protesters block roads, turn learners back from school, stone councillor’s office

Shack dwellers vow to bar politicians from Bobani Village until progress is made with electrification

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News | 25 February 2020

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Payouts to injured workers held up by faulty government software

New R300 million Compensation Fund software isn’t working

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Brief | 25 February 2020

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Khayelitsha shack dwellers block busy road

Protesters want serviced sites but City of Cape Town says shacks were illegally erected on its land

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Brief | 25 February 2020

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