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Patel’s spokesman dodges questions on Lottery

GroundUp told to rather focus on investment conference

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News | 13 November 2019

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“Even the rats don’t feel safe in this school”

Port Elizabeth school battles gangs, neglect

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News | 13 November 2019

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Clinic in Uitenhage shut down by protesters

Anger over staff being unable to locate patients’ medical files

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Brief | 12 November 2019

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Mitchells Plain store owner given two weeks to respond to Equality Court

Store manager says shop owner might leave the country soon

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News | 12 November 2019

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Uber owner claims extortion by taxi drivers - in the police station

Cape Town might soon witness an e-hailing war, says association

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News | 12 November 2019

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Unemployed nurses demand vacant hospital posts be filled

Over 200 nurses marched to the KZN Department of Health in Pietermaritzburg

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Brief | 12 November 2019

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Leeuwkop prisoner says officials gave him electric shocks in showers

“You feel like you can die”

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News | 12 November 2019

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Barred from school by high transport costs

Cottonlands parents demand their own high school

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News | 12 November 2019

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Still no houses for Redhill residents

City of Cape Town says construction will start this month

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Brief | 11 November 2019

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Arcadia House: No solution in sight for families as demolition starts

“If we had anywhere else to go, we would gladly go”

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Brief | 11 November 2019

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“We didn’t ask for much” – seven years after the De Doorns uprising

“We are getting to a point where we will definitely see another strike soon”

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Feature | 11 November 2019

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75-year-old SHAWCO to cut back activity after funding cuts

But medical projects will continue

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Brief | 11 November 2019

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Extinction Rebellion calls Africa Oil Week delegates “climate criminals”

Activists are demanding that government declare a “climate and ecological emergency”

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News | 8 November 2019

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Heated debate over which court should hear farm worker case

Judge expected to rule next week on whether Oak Valley case will be heard in Labour or Equality Court

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Law | 8 November 2019

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Suspended PRASA security manager to be reinstated

CCMA finds Ernest Hendricks was unfairly treated

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News | 8 November 2019

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Small towns are missing the chance to change apartheid’s geography

With political will, it can be done

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Opinion | 8 November 2019

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