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Engcobo residents demand mayor step down

Community organisations allege corruption, demand municipality be put under administration

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Brief | 18 May 2018

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Rubbish piles up in Harare

Ivory Park residents complain of poor city services

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News | 18 May 2018

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TB research is underfunded but new medicines are on their way

Part two of a three part series on a neglected disease that kills over a hundred thousand South Africans every year

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Feature | 17 May 2018

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We are living in a pigsty, says ward councillor

Informal dumps spread in Tshepisong West as garbage goes uncollected

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Brief | 17 May 2018

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Shelters for abused women battle to find funds

State provides 40% of money. Shelters need to raise the rest from other sources.

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Feature | 17 May 2018

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Western Cape’s mounting rubbish problem

Less than half of the province’s landfill sites are operational

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News | 17 May 2018

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Equal Education general secretary stepped down over allegations of sexual harassment

Civil society organisation appoints independent panel to investigate accusations against Tshepo Motsepe

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Brief | 16 May 2018

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Why do so many South Africans die of TB?

Part one of a three part series on a neglected disease which kills over 100,000 South Africans every year

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Feature | 16 May 2018

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Area with most murders in the country will wait until 2023 for another police station

“It cannot be we parachute in and parachute out,” resident tells police minister at launch of latest crime prevention operation in Cape Town

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News | 16 May 2018

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Overcrowding leads to Ekurhuleni land occupation

New settlement named after Abahlali baseMjondolo president S’bu Zikode

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News | 16 May 2018

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State of the art library to open in Dunoon

Libraries in poor communities have to be built from scratch

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News | 16 May 2018

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H₂O International’s motives not pure

The purifying company’s South African franchise has made unproven claims about municipal water

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Science | 16 May 2018

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Thousands march in solidarity with Palestine

“I stand here as a Jewish South African to say to Israel: ‘Enough! Enough shooting unarmed protesters!’”

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News | 15 May 2018

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East London has no budget to clean toilets, says official

Duncan Village communal toilets in terrible state

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News | 15 May 2018

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Parents stop teaching at primary school after allegations of corporal punishment

Children beaten with coat hanger says parent

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Brief | 15 May 2018

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Ramaphosa visits home of gunned-down corruption-fighting councillor

ANC comrades accuse each other of KZN political murders

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News | 15 May 2018

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