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Refugee organisation condemns raids by Home Affairs

Government says it will continue to enforce immigration legislation with “full might of the law” and “no respite”

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Bus strike over: Employers and unions agree on 9%

Agreement on backdated pay reached

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Brief | 14 May 2018

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Vrygrond residents torch ward councillor’s car

Community protests after shacks demolished on Sunday morning

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Brief | 14 May 2018

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Eastern Cape learners battle without internet access

Free internet and wifi in public libraries stopped last year

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Brief | 14 May 2018

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“This place, honestly, has saved my life”

Shelters to get boost from City of Cape Town for winter

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News | 14 May 2018

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Cheese factory has to secure its property or risk losing it

EbuMnandini residents interdicted from occupying Cremona land until September

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News | 12 May 2018

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Court orders PRASA to release audio recordings

Tapes will show whether board took decision to disband Legal Panel

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News | 11 May 2018

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Cape Town councillor promises new social housing by 2019

Activists vow to continue occupying Helen Bowden Nursing Home and Woodstock Hospital

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News | 11 May 2018

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No money to improve school says KZN education department

Protests enter third week at Pietermaritzburg high school

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News | 11 May 2018

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School children have to use a field as a toilet

We feel abandoned by the government, says parent

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Brief | 11 May 2018

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Three years on, still no result of SAHRC investigation into Old Mutual

Commission still looking into closure of cricket club in 2015

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Brief | 11 May 2018

ARTICLE RETRACTED: R22 million Red Location Museum slowly being stripped nail by nail

This article plagiarised from another article published in 2016. This violates GroundUp’s principles. We have therefore retracted it.

News | 11 May 2018

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Miners protest for better safety following Sibanye Stillwater deaths

Unions say there have been 33 fatalities so far in 2018

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News | 11 May 2018

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Teen judo fighter from Uitenhage flies to Burundi

Lithemba Magajana found a sponsor to the African Judo Cadet Championship

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Brief | 10 May 2018

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When losing your job means losing your home

Former farm worker battles to keep house on Ceres farm but farmer says there is a shortage of homes for current workers

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News | 10 May 2018

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Understanding the Michael Komape judgment

It’s a setback for the family, but it will help the campaign to end pit toilets in schools

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