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Relocated Khayelitsha residents want the basic services they were promised

Residents say ward councillor Andile Lili said they would get electricity, taps and toilets

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Khayelitsha woman won’t be put off teaching

Fed up with the public school system, Neliswa Dludla set up the Early Birds Lifestyle Academy

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Durban residents demand speed bumps on deadly road

Blockade after child hurt in accident at the weekend

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Mining Charter: who is fooling whom?

Minister excludes communities from discussions

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Township residents want pigs out

A piggery run from a private house in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, has neighbours up in arms

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Never too old to compete for gold

Thousands join the Cape Town Games for Older Living

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Home Affairs ignores court order

Scores of asylum seekers turned away at Foreshore office

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News | 3 April 2018

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Mfuleni land occupiers won’t give up

“Setting up again is a form of resistance” says woman whose shack has been demolished

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School children recycle waste for food

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News | 3 April 2018

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Education department blames Grootkraal community for delays

Supreme Court of Appeal to hear case on community’s right to land in Oudtshoorn

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News | 3 April 2018

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SASSA says Grindrod bank charge is “disingenuous”

SASSA card users will be charged R10 a month plus ATM withdrawal charges

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Brief | 29 March 2018

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Community lives in fear of giant rock

Residents in KwaXimba say they want to be relocated as a matter of urgency

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Brief | 29 March 2018

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Memorial service held for housing activist

“Rasta” Dolophini was fatally stabbed on 18 March

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News | 29 March 2018

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Only one conviction out of 85 in murder hotspot

Part three of a series on political violence and the frustrated search for justice in KwaZulu-Natal

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Land reform policies criticised at HRC inquiry

Most farm evictions are illegal, claims activist

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