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Dumpsite workers go on strike in Pietermaritzburg

Rubbish trucks dump garbage at entrance

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Brief | 13 September 2018

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Metrorail activists call for national disaster to be declared

The very contemplation of a train journey strikes fear into passengers’ hearts, says #UniteBehind

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News | 13 September 2018

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Gauteng court rules against cheap bank repossessions

Judgment is a victory for Johannesburg homeowners, and possibly homeowners across the country

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Law | 13 September 2018

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Did Cape Town lose millions on Foreshore land sale?

City appears to have sold property to Growthpoint for R1,880 instead of R5,000 per square metre of possible floor space

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News | 13 September 2018

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Local shops hike prices as immigrants forced out, say Gauteng residents

Yet anti-immigrant sentiments persist in Ratanda, south of Heidelberg

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News | 13 September 2018

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Hostel has one toilet for 39 households

“We are being undermined because we are staying in a hostel”

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Brief | 13 September 2018

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UNAIDS director and HIV activist in legal battle

SA academic Vuyiseka Dubula threatened with defamation suit

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Brief | 13 September 2018

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Stacy Ganger, 12, died in gang crossfire in 2016. More than two years later, no-one has been arrested.

Bishop Lavis residents demand better policing

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News | 12 September 2018

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The protection of women’s rights begins with childhood

Men who are abused as boys are more likely to be violent as adults

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Opinion | 12 September 2018

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Young women must come out and shame their abusers, say activists

March against violence in Duncan Village

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Brief | 12 September 2018

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End corruption and nepotism in land redistribution, protesters tell government

“If we don’t get the land back, we won’t allow the general elections to happen”

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Brief | 12 September 2018

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No justice for assassinated Abahlali activists

Investigating officer claimed no knowledge of S’fiso Ngcobo’s case, hung up the phone, and blocked our number

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Feature | 12 September 2018

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Township residents march on Parliament as crime statistics are released

“We sleep hearing gunshots and wake up hearing gunshots”

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News | 11 September 2018

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“Mass shutdown” planned on the Cape Flats in October

Hundreds expected to march against crime and gang violence

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News | 11 September 2018

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Affordable Housing: City of Cape Town and developers at crossroads

An inclusionary housing policy can stimulate density and new development

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Opinion | 11 September 2018

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Civil servant goes to prison for stealing farm

Case highlights extent to which corrupt officials easily manipulate the land reform process

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News | 11 September 2018

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