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Sewer pipe collapses and destroys homes

Our whole living room collapsed and our bedroom where my wife was sleeping, says resident

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News | 26 April 2018

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Leading SA doctor calls for head of UN body to go

Michel Sidibe “has at minimum built and supported the environment in which these abuses took place” says Professor Francois Venter

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News | 26 April 2018

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Pietermaritzburg residents cut off for months by flooded road

“When it is hot, children swim. To them this is a swimming pool,” says resident

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Brief | 26 April 2018

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Home Affairs bungle separates man from pregnant wife

Immigration official violates policy, preventing Zimbabwean from entering South Africa

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News | 26 April 2018

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Know your rights: when can you be evicted and how?

No-one can be evicted without an order of a court

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Law | 26 April 2018

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R20 an hour is an insult, say marchers

Nationwide protests against proposed minimum wage

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News | 25 April 2018

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Vrygrond residents to restart land occupation

Community leaders unhappy with outcome of meeting with mayor

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News | 25 April 2018

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SASSA tells NET1 to retract “misleading” pamphlet

Company told to apologise to social grant beneficiaries

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News | 25 April 2018

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Community consent is not needed for mining rights, says lawyer

Department of Mineral Resources in court over Xolobeni mine

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News | 25 April 2018

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BEE farming project strangled by drought

“The dam is now at less than 10% of its capacity,” says farmer

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Feature | 25 April 2018

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Metrorail adds to commuter woes during bus strike

“Make use of alternative transport” says official

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Brief | 24 April 2018

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End to seven-month strike by Port St Johns municipal workers

Garbage piled up in town, turning away tourists

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News | 24 April 2018

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Community consent needed before granting mining rights, court hears

Not according to the Act says mine company lawyer

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Law | 24 April 2018

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Why the Fish River Sun land claim case took 20 years

Court was scathing about Land Claims Commission

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Law | 24 April 2018

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Hout Bay residents have title deeds but no houses

Bureaucratic bungling has left dozens in limbo for 13 years

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News | 24 April 2018

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Durban woman’s pension vanishes in unexplained loans

CPS promises to refund beneficiary while it investigates

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