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Tembisa residents meet councillors to discuss reblocking concerns

Speaker of Ekurhuleni Council to visit Vusimuzi to see conditions

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Treasury shoots down CPS social grant payment fee

R51 recommended to Constitutional Court instead of R67 per cash beneficiary

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Cape Flats residents criticise poor service at clinics

Long waiting times, rude nursing staff, and patient folders go missing, say residents

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News | 3 May 2018

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“We share classes with cows” says learner

Education department fobs off school’s complaint

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News | 3 May 2018

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Evicted occupiers bed down outside Civic Centre

Protest comes ahead of court case to decide if demolitions carried out by the City of Cape Town are legal

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Brief | 3 May 2018

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Violent clashes between Mitchells Plain and Siqalo residents

30 people arrested for public violence

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Brief | 2 May 2018

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Unions divided on Workers’ Day

Rival events held on 1 May show unequal support for Saftu and Cosatu

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Analysis | 2 May 2018

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Cape Town needs to invest in places like Malawi Camp

Airport settlement is test of municipality’s commitment to investing in poor communities

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Opinion | 2 May 2018

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Soccer brings immigrants and South Africans together

Sport helps reduce tension, say activists

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News | 2 May 2018

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NRF cuts hurt South Africa’s scientists

Researchers need to hold public officials accountable

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Opinion | 2 May 2018

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UNISA students wait for NSFAS funding

As exams approach, students are also anxiously waiting for textbook vouchers

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Brief | 2 May 2018

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All Hermanus land protesters released on bail

Minister to return to Zwelihle on 15 May

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Brief | 2 May 2018

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Humansdorp families stuck in emergency housing since 2011

“The municipality promised to relocate us to another site but nothing has happened so far”

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News | 30 April 2018

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I love it here, says dump site resident

Families living next to New England landfill say they can walk to collect their groceries

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Khayelitsha hospital under the spotlight

Patients’ complaints prompt TAC meeting

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News | 30 April 2018

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Much needed Cape rain floods homes

Khayelitsha residents wake early to find their shacks soaking

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