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Prasa Rail acting CEO removed

Minister Blade Nzimande appoints new board

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Brief | 13 April 2018

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Wallacedene fire victims want electricity restored

Increased hardships and fire risk as shack dwellers wait months for Eskom

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News | 13 April 2018

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Millions wasted on dodgy Western Cape government security contract

R3 million a month for guards and dogs at Helen Bowden Nurses Home

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Feature | 13 April 2018

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COSATU pickets Parliament over “deepening crisis in Cape Town”

Union raises similar issues to those raised by Saftu earlier in the day

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News | 12 April 2018

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Saftu marches against proposed labour laws

Union opposes secret ballot for strikes and national minimum wage amount

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News | 12 April 2018

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Philippi land occupiers threaten to defy court order

“I have nowhere to go. If they destroy our shacks then I would go and live in the streets with my wife and two children.”

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News | 12 April 2018

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Hundreds sign petition to deny bail to man accused of murdering lesbian

“This was a hate crime. He lives in the community where the victim resided.”

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News | 12 April 2018

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Thembelihle on edge ahead of release of dolomite report

Residents want to know: will JHB municipality relocate or develop the informal settlement

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News | 12 April 2018

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Dunoon neighbourhood watch shelter set ablaze

Meanwhile communication breaks down between citizen patrols and police

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News | 12 April 2018

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Dunoon women choose toilets over businesses

Shipping containers pushed into the road to make way for new toilets

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News | 11 April 2018

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Anger over 10,000-seater stadium for Observatory

“We want development that supports the area,” says resident

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News | 11 April 2018

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Tsonga farmers put vacant Gauteng municipal land to good use

“The municipality warns us when someone buys the land, then we move on”

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News | 11 April 2018

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Township homeowners complain about land occupiers

They “are living in comfort because they have houses of their own, while we don’t have” responds occupier

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News | 11 April 2018

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Hermanus residents come out in support of arrested protesters

Scores in court, charged with public violence

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News | 11 April 2018

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Raped at 10, assaulted at 15, then harassed in the police station while laying charges

Klapmuts teenager’s grim story

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News | 10 April 2018

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Herbex made unproven claims about weight loss products

Advertising Standards Authority uses its fangs again after years of litigation

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Science | 10 April 2018

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